chivasregal:
Yes, it's both possible and desirable to download, install, and run win ME defrag on a win 98 system. I've done it and have been running WinMe defrag.exe successfully on my Windows 98 Standard Edition PC for four or five years.
I have two old PCs; one running Windows 98, the other Windows ME.
I'm no longer able to find it on the Microsoft download site. (They simply tell you they're discontinued support for Microsoft 9x/ME.)
I did find it at the following link:
http://www.the-old-sea-dog.net/defrag.htmlDownload his zip file "win9x-medefrag.zip" to where ever you want on your system. Unzip it, read instructions in "ReadFirst.htm" file, execute them. The command file he asks you to execute "install.bat" contains the following two lines:
ren C:\Windows\defrag.exe defrag.old
xcopy defrag.exe C:\Windows
It assumes your Windows 98 system was installed to "C:\Windows\", the default location. It renames the Win98 defrag file and copies in the new one.
I did the download, unzipped the file but did not execute the command file to install. I examined the "defrag.exe" file included in the zip and it is indeed the same size and version as the one off of my Windows Me installation. In fact all of the file properties are the same except the dates. It is unfortunate that he wasn't able to preserve the file dates. The official file on my installation has the Windows Me system date of 6/8/2000. It looks good and legit to me.
The other option is I could attempt to email you original "defrag.exe" off of my Windows ME system, but other than the dates it looks the same as his.
P.S. I've successfully used Diskeeper Lite v7.0 build 418 on my Windows ME system. Never tried it on Windows 98.