For the Birds wrote:[color=blue]
> Recently I re-installed a clean version of Windows Vista Home Premium. I
> have done all the updates and installed anti-virus software. Then I was
> trying to run defrag and when it opens it says "Your file system performance
> can be improved" at which point I click on "Defragment Now". At this point it
> would say "analyzing disk" for 2 or 3 seconds and it then goes back to "Your
> file system performance can be improved". I keep clicking on "Defragment Now"
> over and over again but it keeps doing the same thing.
>
> I then scheduled Error-Checking on the next start-up but when the computer
> restarts, nothing happens. I've tried it a few times and the disk is never
> scanned. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.[/color]

Perhaps the Event Viewer will give you some useful error messages to
follow up. I can't recall the exact location, but you will find it
somewhere in Control Panel. Or, type 'event' in Start->Search.