Thanks everyone for all your help...
I really appreciate it but none of it worked. I was able to defrag by booting into safe mode and doing it there. That was the only way. I also tried the cold boot (thanks for the lingo lesson Gemini)
I'm just gonna get a new machine I guess. It's time anyway. This pc was put together by Dr. Frankenstein I think. It's just a bunch of parts in a box as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks again folks.