System defragment

Defragmentation on discs are done weekly as scheduled, but System (now fragmented 12%) woundn't defragment.
When I highlight the "System" and click defragment, the progress stops about 1.7% or so.
The message says it should be defragmented when more than 10% are fragmented. Thanks.
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Hi,
I would not run it weekly, it will kill your HDD faster. Once a month or every second month is good enough.
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I useMail.app for 7 years now and has always been happy with it.
Since Leopard I experience very bad behaviours and on several computers....
The first point is that Mail is strangely slow to be closed... The window of the message closed but The menu Mail stays on the top of the screen during 20 seconds....
The second point: sometimes you loose all your mailboxes. They disappear from the interface of Mail.
Has anybody got this sensation that Mail is worse since Leopard??? And sssslllllloooow. Again I'm talking abut several computers and even for a brand new computer I'm experiencing the first point...

While 10 GB is, technically, plenty, it causes your system to work much harder than it should. That 10 GB is scattered all over your drive in tiny little chunks. If you receive a single message, with maybe a small attachment, the system may have to find 5 or 6 different places on your hard drive to store all the various data and indexes. MacOS X tries to keep the system defragmented as possible, but this is making it that much more difficult.
Still, I doubt that is enough to cause noticeable slow downs like this. What kinds of e-mail accounts do you use? If you have IMAP or maybe some of the other, funkier, non-POP accounts, there could be all kinds of network activity going on. If your particular server is being uncooperative, Mail could have to wait for disconnecting and other various operations. It may be doing things at shutdown that are supposed to be fast, but, for some reason, are slow on your mail server.

Hp mini battery died

Hi All,
I bought one Hp mini last year and I was pretty impressed about its performance until last week. Last week I was out for a vacation and for the first time its battery drained fully. And when i came back, the battery was not charging. And today when i checked, I could find that its warranty got over yesterday.
Serial number CNC04433DF
Product number XP524PA
Warranty Status Warranty has expired
Warranty End Date 2012-01-21 (YYYY-MM-DD)
When I searched about this issue, I could see many people encountered this problem which confirms that this is certianly HP hardware issue that should be sorted out(Else you will be loosing customers for this reason).
CAn anyone help me regarding this ?

Thanks but I think it's time for me to face the facts that the hard drive is fried due to the battery dying right in the middle of running system defrag
(╥_╥) sooo sad

System defragment

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