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39098 2002-03-14 06:00:00 Im running Norton Disk Doctor, and I continue to receive this message'NDD has restarted 10 times because Windows or another programme has been writing to this drive. Quitting some running programmes may enable NDD to finish sooner' I am obviously unable to run NDD and have no idea how to quit running programs...
Thanks Louise
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39099 2002-03-14 06:18:00 Easiest way is to restart the computer and during boot up keep pressing F8 ( the vary between models byt F8 is the most common one) till you get a Dos screen up giving you about 4 options, one is Safe Mode, enter the number for Safe Mode and press enter and windows will now load minimumal drivers which will allow you to run Nortons. Same applies to Scandisk and Defrag.
You could use the clt.alt.dlt option to open the system box and remove one by one the various programs running keeping just systray and explorer but you still end up rebooting afterwards anyway to restore those programs afterwards
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39100 2002-03-14 06:37:00 If your running Windows 95/98 press alt ctrl delete form there close everything but systray and explorer by clicing the programs and clicking end task. Once they are the only two on the list. Run disk DR...Bingo. Or do what the previous guy said. Guest (0)
39101 2002-03-14 07:13:00 If you hold down the Shift key while Win 95 (and presumably later versions) is loading it blocks the loading of everything in your Startup folder. This would not cover anything that is loaded from autoexec.bat.

For how to find out everything that is running go to 'How can I see EVERYTHING ...', a post by Chris Wilson on this page for 12/3 - lots of info there.
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39102 2002-03-14 08:30:00 It might help if you turned off your screensaver as well. Guest (0)
39103 2002-03-14 09:06:00 the catch22 with booting to safe mode is that some norton uilities will not work in safe mode.

a comman cause for this sort of problem is the swapfile resizeing. increase the minium swapfile size. also closeing down any other programs will help.
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39104 2002-03-14 09:26:00 Hey thanks im about to try them all.. Guest (0)
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