Computer Help: DFRGNTS.EXE

[Macbeth]

For some reason, my computer keeps running the automated Windows Defrag process, DFRGNFTS.EXE, which immediately eats up >90% of my CPU. I cannot find anyway to stop it, and it seriously slows down my computer. I tried restarting and running the defrag utility for myself yesterday, but when I woke up my computer today, it started running again! Does anybody know how to stop this? Please help, as this is slowing my computer to a crawl.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I can think of two things to check. First of all, check what programs you have in your startup folder. If it is listed in there, remove it.

The other thing is check your scheduled tasks (in My Computer). Defrag might be set up for every day in there.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I'm no computer expert, but if that program is running without you initiating it, then some other file has to give your computer the directive to run it. If you do a search on the text (not the file, the text) "dfrgnfts.exe", IMO, you should come across the file that starts the defragmentation program. Perhaps you can edit that file (maybe a .com, .bat, .ini file?) to stop the defrag program from running?

Have you checked your Windows Task Manager?

AR

 

[Macbeth]

I think I figured it out: it is supposed to run automitcally, it's juts not supposed to take up so much of my resources, or run so often. So I ran the defrag tool to asses my harddrive, and found that while almost everyhting was okay, there was one file in over 1,000 fragments, and that file could not be moved. It was a video file, and I couldn't manually delete it, so I simply over wrote it with a text file with the same name, and THEN deleted it. And now I think DFRGNTFS.EXE is finally happy, and isn't running all the time anymore. I think the reason it was eating so much CPU time was that it was continually trying to defrag that one file. Eh, I hope that's it. We'll see in a little bit.