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Hi guys, hoping you can help me out again...

I`ve tried the trial versions of perfectdisk and diskeeper (and liked both) but now they`ve expired I`ve uninstalled them and my MS defragmenter spits its dummy out with the following error...

Snap-in failed to initialize.
Name:<unknown>
CLSID:{43668E21-2636-11D1-A1CE-0080C88593A5}

Any ideas? Trawled about a bit and nowt seemed to work, but I know you guys can sort it!!

Thanx again

Thanx Burke, tried that one, still no go tho.... get some error saying they aren`t recognized commands or something for both of those .dll`s, also tried the last option and nothing happens, maybe I`ll reboot and try again eh!??!?!

Righty then, still no go after a bit of messin around, even tried goin in thru storage management and get the same errors...reminds me of the time I used to use Zonealarm!

Anyway guys, anymore suggestions???

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1248/

Perhaps look into this as a possible source of the problem.

Maybe you have to reinstall the snapin.
Disk Management - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is the replacement for the Windows NT Disk Administrator. Only a member of the Administrators group can use this tool. It can manage local or remote disk volumes. It is used to:
Make and format partitions.
Create, format, or delete simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 volumes.
Modify a disk from basic to dynamic type or vice versa, create. A disk can only be converted from dynamic to basic by first deleting all the volumes in the dynamic disk.
Display information about the disk including the disk type (basic or dynamic), disk number, disk size and disk status. Disk status can be:
Online
Foreign - Remote disk
No Media - For removable disks.
Offline - For dynamic disks that cannot be reached due to various possible reasons. The disk may be remote.
Online (errors) - There are errors on the disk.
Unreadable - Errors preventing access have occurred.
Unrecognized - Unknown type of disk.
It will also provide volume information including size, name, and status. Volume status can be:
Healthy
Healthy (boot) - Active primary partition on the first drive.
Healthy (system) - if same as boot volume, it is called "Healthy (boot)".
Failed
Failed Redundancy - A fault tolerant volume is not on line.
Failed Redundancy (At Risk) - A fault tolerant volume that has lost fault tolerence has errors detedted on it.
Healthy (At Risk) - Errors have been detected on the volume.
Initializing - Dynamic volume being initialized.
Regenerating
Resynching - Mirrored volumes are being resynchronized
Recover from drive failures.
To install Disk Management:

From an MMC console, click "Add/Remove Snap-in".
Click "Add", select "Disk Management".
Select the computer to install on, and finish.
To start Disk Management, do one of:

Diskeeper has a free light version, it does everything except a scheduled defrag. I think the XP defragmenter is based on diskeeper so removing that may be what messed it up.

Thanx Snuf, I`ll give that a go tonight.

The Dude, I`ll have a look round for diskeeper light now.

Thanx guys!

hello you can always re-register the files needed to defrag so that they should then work...you can just click start, goto run and type cmd, press enter...then type cd windows\system32 then type 'regsvr32 dfrgsnap.dll' and press enter and 'regsvr32 dlfrgui.dll' and press enter that should do and work if you still havent solved the problem hope i helped..

Ok guys, tried all of these now and still get the snap-in failed to initialise error upon trying to start defragger and when I try to re-register those files I still get the error message...

'regsvr32' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

So any more ideas short of a fresh install!?!?!?!?!

Thanx

Do a search to see if dfrgsnap.dll and dfrgui.dll are there, maybe they are missing in action. If they are missing you should be able to use the system file checker to get them form your CD.

Have you considered running WindowsXP install disk and running the "repair" option? It would avoid having to do a fresh install, but you might have to retweak your registry when you are done... or back it up and import it after the repair. Which might make the entire repair process pointless.

I dunno, if what they suggest doesn't work I'd try a repair before a fresh install.

Yeah, they`re another two ideas I can try I suppose.

Will I get the option to repair from within windoze or is it a recovery console jobbie!?!??!

Thanx again

Repair XP Installation without Clean Install:
Configure your computer BIOS to start from the CD-ROM drive at bootup.

Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer.

When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.

When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER:

To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.

At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is displayed. Do not select this option.

On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.

Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.

This will repair XP and put everything back to as it first was. You will have to reinstall any Hotfixes and OS updates including SP1 and DX9, plus retweak most (but not all) things all over again.

The advanage here is that you will not have to spend hours reinstallindg all your programs again, as well as setting them up...................

The Dude by name, The Dude by nature!

Thank you kind sir will do exactly that tonite and report back (hopefully)

The updates/hotfixes/SP2 aint a problem really anymore since my ISP just upped my BW to over 2.1Mb (still only gor 256K up tho!! )

Thanx again