Defragmenter problem after installing Windows Live Messenger

After installing Windows Live Messenger, some Microsoft Management Console
tools (especially the disk defragmenter) go corrupt.

Problem: The defragmenter will always complete with an error of not being
able to completely defragment the drive. For the last part, when it tells you
to look in the report to see which files did not defragment, the list will be
empty.

Uninstalling Windows Live Messenger doesn't fix the problem. If you can find
any solution other than reinstalling Windows, please tell me.

I have reinstalled Windows XP and everything is fine again until i install
Windows Live Messenger.

There are reports of this problem everywhere but it seems that i am the
first to report it on this website.

Thanks.

Greetings SJL,

This isn't corruption. There are certain files which do not appear in the defragmenter as
files. For instance, if your master file table has become fragmented you'll get this message
but since the MFT is not listed as a file, the list is empty.

One thing installing Windows Live Messenger will do is turn on the NTFS USN log for the
Sharing Folders feature. The USN log of course can be fragmented which is why you may be
seeing it after installing Messenger. Having the USN log is pretty standard nowadays (as
soon as a program tries to access it, it's automatically switched on) and is on by default in
Vista (for the search indexer).

To defragment all these things, you'll need to use PerfectDisk or something similar.


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"SJL" <> wrote in message
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> After installing Windows Live Messenger, some Microsoft Management Console
> tools (especially the disk defragmenter) go corrupt.
>
> Problem: The defragmenter will always complete with an error of not being
> able to completely defragment the drive. For the last part, when it tells you
> to look in the report to see which files did not defragment, the list will be
> empty.
>
> Uninstalling Windows Live Messenger doesn't fix the problem. If you can find
> any solution other than reinstalling Windows, please tell me.
>
> I have reinstalled Windows XP and everything is fine again until i install
> Windows Live Messenger.
>
> There are reports of this problem everywhere but it seems that i am the
> first to report it on this website.
>
> Thanks.
>
>