Defrag not completing...spyware?

Hi,

I've done a massive deletion of files on this machine (Windows 98) and tried to run defrag. It gets to 75% or so and then stops saying something is running in the background and interferes with completion.

I've run McAfee, AdAware and Spybot to see if it was spyware or adware.

Can a lack of memory (only 64Ram) interfere with completing the process if nothing else is running?

Any ideas?

-M

 

Screensaver is turned off...but that gave me another idea...maybe it's the power/standby settings...

What's the difference between that URL Spyware program you gave me and Spybot/Adaware/McAfee?

Thanks!

Monica

 

If your running the win 98 defragger try this one

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207
|MG| Free Download - Diskeeper Lite 7.0 Build 418

it does a better job and is much faster on my win 98 machine

 

it also helps to do it in safe mode. i get the same thing every now and then on my windows me computer. - sos

 

I had the same problem with another computer running Windows 98 SE. The defrag just seemed to freeze at a certain point and there it sat.

I found that by turning off my screensaver and going into safe mode helped defrag to complete.