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  1. Under Windows 10 the Windows.edb file must have connection with the file map block display and should either be excluded from defrag or defragged during Boot Time Defrag. Please reply to explain what is happening and any plan to fix this problem. Thank you, ~email address removed by moderator to avoid spamming
  2. Thank you so much for the great advice. So I did some major clean-ups and eliminated the Norton 360 Back-ups that had grown to 37 GB of disk space and turned them off. I also purged out all but the latest restore point using CCleaner and eliminated a few excess Outlook PST Archives and found I now have 45% Freespace so that seems to have made everything work better. I will also adjust my weekly maintenance schedule to avoid doing DF on my SSD. I would still like to see Piriform fix whatever it is in their latest versions of DF that is causing Vista SP2 to crash because I think it is still useful for keeping track of what is taking up space and/or disorganizing your SSD even if you never do any defrags at all. So I will keep checking to see if newer versions will finally fix the bug that is causing the crashes. I do have Windows 7 on 2 of my later machines but they both seem to require much more disk storage space and they both have regular disk drives so they don't have the problem. I have never liked Vista because it has lots of weird problems but I have resigned myself to leave it as is until it is time to replace the machine with something that has a much larger disk (~1 TB or more) and runs the latest stable version of Windows. At least I have learned all the tricks for how to live with it for now and I'm sure its days are numbered at this point. It's just a case of the devil you know feels safer than the devil you don't. So thank-you again for all your help and support !!!
  3. Thanks again for your insight. I have a Samsung 250 GB SSD of their PM800 series and yes it is almost full (70-80% depending on accumulated Restore Points). But I have no idea whether that is an SLC, MLC, or TLC and I wouldn't know how to find out. All I know is I have been running this machine for 6 years doind defrags once a week and it is still going strong. The DF >2.15 crashes are the first I have seen in many years and my worst problem has been trying to keep the Windows Vista generated garbage from over-running my now meager drive capacity. It seemed like plenty when I bought the machine, but now It seems like a Terrabyte is what you need to cope with the latest series of bloated blivotware. If you know how to tell what flavor my SSD is I can plan to transition it to something else before I start getting failures. I am using a Synology dual 2TB network drive to back-up all critical files on all my machines on a daily basis.but I always worry that Murphy will get me somehow anyway. I appreciate any advice you might have for what is a reasonable strategy for going forward. :-) Thank-you again for all your help !!!
  4. Thanx a lot for your thoughtful reply. As a newbie, I just managed to read through the SSD Optimization track that you were commenting on, and maybe I should stop trying to defraggle my SSD altogether, but running the DF 2.15 does seem to help it especially if I use it sparingly and only defrag the files that the Analyze function turns up. I did have a Dell Senior Support tech tell me that my Samsung SSD would NOT be affected by defragging and that the estimated MTBF for those drives was greater than 40 years of 7x24 use so I had stopped worrying about it. Was he just dead wrong ??? :-)
  5. The occurence of this problem seemed to coincide with the addition of the optimize function and probably only effects laptops with SSD primary drives. It is apparently attempting to apply Intel SSD tools to my Samsung drive. with very bad results. I haven't seen any Windows Bluescreen crashes like this for several years now until this started happenning. Anybody have any ideas of what might be actually happening ??? :-)
  6. No, it only appeared after the DF induced crashes and it goes away when I go back to DF 2.15 !!!
  7. I have the most current version of Windows Vista x86 (32 bit) installed on my Dell XPS M1530, which uses a Samsung SSDR (256GB, S2, 2.5, RBAM) for a hard drive. Ever since version 2.16 of Defraggler was released Windows crashes shortly after I try to start Defraggler. It has gotten worse with later versions (now crashes immediately). Each time I have to go back and remove the current version and reinstall version 2.15, which continues to work properly as it always has. Can anyone tell me what is causing this annoying malady and how or when a fix might be available for this error. I have used CCleaner and Dafraggler for many years to keep all of my computers running properly. This is the first time I have seen any kind of a problem that would cause Windows Vista to crash !!! HELP !!! When Windows reboots it puts up some bogus message about the Raid Controller missing a driver and when I try to follow the link to the Intel fix for the problem I get an invalid page message. It says I am missing the iaStor.sys driver but it is right there in the Windows/System32/drivers folder. So there is no help for this problem !!!
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