No. Defrag runs in the background under low priority. It takes almost no
resources. When it is done, it's done. Start the defrag and then do whatever
else you want to do.

You can always use a 3rd party defragger such as Raxco's PerfectDisk version
8

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


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