Hi Neil,

Click start, type CMD and right click the entry that appears in the start
menu. Choose "run as administrator". Run contig from this elevated prompt.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Neil Jones" <castellan2004-nschap@remove-this.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Vista Ultimate on my system. I want to defrag some specific
> directories/files, so I have downloaded "Contig" (sysinternals toolset)
> from the Microsoft site. When I try to run this tool as normal user I
> got "Access Denied" message. I have logged in as the System
> Administrator and got the same "Access Denied" message.
>
> How can I run the "Contig" tool on Vista? What are the proper settings?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ[/color]