Just boot into Safe Mode by repeatedly tapping [F8] as
the PC boots. Choose "Safe Mode" and defragment your
disk(s) now.

You could also download EndItAll and use it to stop
"all" processes before defragmenting.

HTH,
Tomas Santos
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Defrag problem
>
>
> I have Win98SE.  I shut everything down in my systray,
> but defrag won't run.
> I hit
> cont/alt/delete and it says Explorer is running as
well
> as Kb891711,
> Ashmaisv and
> Ashwebsv.  I know that Kb891711 is part of the latest
> MS security patch, but
> don't
> know why it's running in the background.  And the two
> 'Ash' files are part
> of Avast.
> Does anyone know why those programs are running, when
> everything is
> supposedly shut
> down?  (There was nothing showing active in my system
> tray.)
> Carol Hanson
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