>From our local computer expert, my husband, a former softie.
Garnet
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This most likely caused by 'MS Office Fast Find' feature writing to the
disk and causing scandisk to restart.
To disable Fast Find: Go to Start / Settings / Task Bar Start Menu, next
click on the Start Menu Programs then click on Advanced then open
Programs / Startup, right click on the Fast Find and select delete from
the drop down menu. If you need it back it will be in you Recycle Bin,
we also usually remove the Office Start up from the Startup Folder, you
can leave the Office Short Cut bar (unless you don't use it).
If you don't disable your Screen Saver then scandisk or defrag will
restart whenever it kicks in.
(to disable screen saver: right click on a blank spot of the desktop and
left click on properties, in the screen saver tab note the screen saver
you prefer then select None. You will need to re-enable it after you are
done).
If you are using Win95 just click on the Start button and leave the
Start Menu up as you run Scandisk and again when you run Defrag. With
Win95 when the Start Menu is up your screen saver will be disabled (this
will not help with Win98).
If you are using Win98 it's default setting is to "Rearrange Programs"
it may improve performance but it takes way too long to finish, or it
sets on 10% for a long time, disable it by going to Start / Run / type:
defrag then click OK, in the settings tab remove the check mark for
Rearrange Programs and click OK. If defrag will still not finish or
continues to restart you have a program that is reading from the drive
(like a antivirus program) you have two choices:
1. Use Task Manager (Ctrl and Alt then tap the Del key once) to close
all programs EXCEPT Explorer and SysTray the defrag or scandisk should
run to completion.
2. Restart the system in Safe Mode (press the F8 key about once per
second at system power on until the get the boot menu use the arrow keys
to select Safe Mode and Press enter.
Note: In Safe Mode you will not have Dial-up access, CD-Rom access and
your Display Colors will be limited to 16 colors.
Also if it gets to a point then goes back (for example it gets to 69%
then drops back to 44% several times) this is normal and because it runs
into a none moveable block and must rearrange programs to fit into the
area available.
Garnet
>
> I was attempting to run Scandisk because of bootup problems, but "another
> program" kept interfering with Scandisk. I contacted Trend and asked how to
> temporarily disable their program while I ran Scandisk. They gave me
> prompt, correct advice, but I STILL had problems with Scandisk, which told
> me "another program" was running and causing interference, but all other
> programs were closed, and Trend is the only AV program I have. Perhaps I
> have a trojan running in the background?
>
> Comment, experts?
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