Joseph's suggestion should work.

In addition to the screensaver, I normally would disable most of the memory
resident programs in my task bar such as Anti-Virus program, Scheduler, *and
even Zone Alarm.*  Still another fail-safe way of doing Defrag & ScanDisk is
doing it while running your system in Safe Mode.  And since you have 2 hard
drives, I would recommend doing this maintenance in both drives while you're
at it.

Season's Greetings to you!
Emie

----- Original Message -----
From: "jrizzo" <[log in to unmask]>


> Before I go any farther make sure your screen saver is off and if that
> doesn't do it then hit control, alt and delete at the same time and then
hit
> end task on everything but sys tray & explorer and that will do it for
sure.
> You'll have to do each one seperately, Joseph Rydzy
>
> > Hi, Greetings,
> >
> > I am trying to clean up the HD from the save mode using the Scan from
> Systems Tool.  After a while the Scan unable to continuing because of
there
> are task(s) running/writing to the HD.
> >
> > How can I make the Scan complete?  I will also like to run the
> Defragmenter after the clean up.   Please advise.
> >
> > The system is Pentium 1.5 GH, two HD (C:/40G and D:/20G), Win98se.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Tony

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