Hi Gary,

Set screensaver to 'None' by right clicking on desktop, selecting
properties, then screensaver.

Les Barnes

Gary W South wrote:
>
> I have a friend who has a 3 month old Compaq. It is a 850 MHz Duron, 128 MB
> RAM, running Windows Me. When trying to run scandisk after a minute or two a
> box pops up and has the following message( not word for word but as best as I
> remember)
> "Scandisk has restarted 10 times. Windows or some other program is writing to
> the hard drive."
>
> I used Ctrl-Alt-Del and shut down everything except explorer and it still
> does the same thing. Can there be other things running after shutting down
> everything that way? Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be and
> how to get it to run and complete scandisk?  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> TIA
> Gary South
>
>

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