You can try to abort running programs, but a simpler and safer approach is
to try running these commands from Safe Mode.

David Gillett


On 1 Dec 2004 at 14:35, Jim Bernhardt wrote:

>     I'm trying to help a friend with her computor, the problem is when
> I try to scandisk or defrag the computor times out because it says a
> program(s) is writing to the harddrive. I shut down screensaver, all
> energy saving features, went into msconfig and took out everyting
> except systray and it still interupts scandisk. My question is how do
> you check to see what programs are running in the backround...Thanks
> in advance for any help on this subject...Jim

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