Paul,
I use Norton Utilities to defrag my hard drive, and don't run into the
restarts that uou gei with Win 98.

George


At 02:29 PM 7/9/99 -0700, Jim McKnew wrote:
>Paul -
>
>They sure can.
>
>Rich -
>
>Fred Langa (WINDOWS Magazine) had an article and discussion group
>going on this not to long ago.  You can read it at:
>
>http://bbs.winmag.com/columns/archives/052399/monday/body.asp?fra
>mes=no
>
>Hope this helps,                                                :}      Jim
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>Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Problem Running Win98 Defrag
>I'm not an expert in this field but I have been led to believe
>that
>screensavers kicking in during defrag can cause the process to
>start from
>scratch again.
>Can anyone confirm this?
>Paul Burgess
>
>A short time after starting this utility (about 30 seconds) it
>restarts and
>displays a message that the contents of the hard drive has
>changed.  I
>realize that this could be caused by antivirus and other software
>that
>periodically accesses the drive, so I did the following.
>1.  Removed all the contents of the startup folders.
>2.  Suspended (Rem) anything that looked likely in the Config &
>Autoexec
>files.
>3.  Unchecked "Load Startup Group Items" in the System
>Configuration
>Utility.
>4.  Unchecked almost everything in the Startup tab in the System
>Configuration Utility.
>5.  Using the Close Program Dialog box shut down every process
>except
>Explorer.
>
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