Reporting to you and mr. mark and the others who have been subjected to the Mystery of the Drive That Was Locked By a Disk Utility So Couldn't Be Defragged, not to mention the part about when defragging, even in Safe Mode, having it start over again and again because a program was writing to disk....
So...
Yesterday, for no reason, really, except that I installed WinMe not long ago and am getting used to it even though I really like Netscape better, in a way, and WinMe is what my new computer comes with, I got a message that pops up ever so often asking if I wanted to make IE my default browser... and this time on impulse I clicked Yes. (I use both browsers but Netscape was the default one.)
Yesterday evening I had to defrag. As I've done each time before resorting to Safe Mode, I tried first the normal way. A formality.
But to my surprise, i didn't get that message.
Not only did it defrag in a lively way, but it never had to restart. Just defragged away.
I really don't think it's a coincidence. It wasn't long after I installed WinMe that I started using IE for the first time.
I think there was some battle of the browsers going on. Does that sound possible to you?
All this wasn't a waste. I really have learned a lot.
Thanks SO much everybody.
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