** RESOURCE: Scandisk & Defrag

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Prior Posts on Scan Disk/defrag: Can’t Start, Won’t Finish, Interruptions, How Often, Not Run on Startup, Etc.
20274; Drive Contents Changed; Restarting
20252; Not Run Scandisk after Illegal Shutdown
19956; Defrag ID NO: DEFRAG004
19824; Slow; Only Goes to 24%
19611; Enditall2, the Magic Bullet?
19585; Won’t Defrag At All
18912; Restarted 10 Times
17856; How Often?
16584; Never Finishes
16363; Never Get Past 54%
14003: Restarted 10 Times
12327; Disk Corrupt?
11940; Freezes?
11781; Keeps Restarting
11673; Unrepairable Sectors?
11633; Run SD & Defrag Says Run Again7141; Never Finishes
6249; Index.dat w/Invalid Date
24355; Alternatives to MS Defrag

MS KB 273017; SD Runs Even w/Proper Shutdown
MS KB 186978; Drive’s Contents Have Changed: Restarting
MS KB 222469; ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times
MS KB 243450; SD Errors on IDE Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB

Win 95/98 users can realize significant speed increases using WinME Defrag. Not for compressed drives. Download from one of these sites:
SureCool.com; under “featured utilities”; includes installer
Silicon Valley/peaks
Rogers.com

Wow--good stuff looking fwd to ur new Delindex pgm.. Just wondering why after running same..that the Automatic Update clicks in after running Delindex..no prob, I just have to uncheck it every time.. Also I set the Font to my liking and after Delindex it reverts to default./orig..?? just a little nit picking i gess?? keep it up!! tnx
Gerri-Lynn

sooooo- thats whats doing it.I have been having the same problem.

24383

I had the same problem with Automatic Update clicking back in (turned on) when using Delindex.

The solution I used, was to follow RM's path in Delindex concerning WUHISTV3.log, and apply it to
AUSTATE.cfg which is in the same History folder.

In order to get it to work in my computer I had take the long way around and change the 'Hidden' attribute to unhide AUSTATE.cfg, then move it into C:\ along with wuhistv3.log.

After Delindex did it's thing, I moved AUSTATE.cfg back into the rebuilt History folder along with WUHISTV3.log, and gave AUSTATE.cfg back it's 'Hidden' attribute again.

:HISTORY
if not exist c:\progra~1\window~2\austate.cfg goto HISTORY1
attrib -h c:\progra~1\window~2\austate.cfg
move /y c:\progra~1\window~2\austate.cfg c:\>nul
:HISTORY1
if exist c:\progra~1\window~2\wuhistv3.log move /y c:\progra~1\window~2\wuhistv3.log c:\>nul
deltree /y c:\progra~1\window~2\>nul
if not exist c:\austate.cfg goto HISTORY2
move /y c:\austate.cfg c:\progra~1\window~2\>nul
attrib +h c:\progra~1\window~2\austate.cfg
:HISTORY2
if exist c:\wuhistv3.log move /y c:\wuhistv3.log c:\progra~1\window~2\>nul

I think that the AUSTATE.cfg file has something to do with Automatic Update State (on/off) and may also contain information as to your signing the EULA (End User License Agrrement) with certain updates and Microsoft software.

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Here is one RM.

Windows cannot defragment this drive now because it has been locked by a disk utility. Quit any utilities that may have locked this drive, and then try defragmenting the drive again. ID No. DEFRAG00105

That is MS KB (Q286810)
I'll Try

Sorry, didn't get this on my last post.

List of Articles About the Disk Defragmentor Tool (Q286263)

I'll Try

thanks poemosophi