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15107 2001-07-06 02:31:00 I cannot defrag,scandisk or install some programmes as it says a program is writing to windows.Have disabled screensaver and all the icons in the tray but to no avail.Running Windows 98.How do I find which programme is doing it.Thanks,Max. Guest (0)
15108 2001-07-06 04:10:00 go cntrl-alt-del and see if theres anything there, ideally you just want explorer and systray in there if your having probs, check to see if your anti-virus software is set to autoscan and disable that and fastfind if you have it.
you could also boot to safemode and run scandisk/defrag.
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15109 2001-07-06 14:49:00 Run a process watcher such as WINTOP and see what processes are running at the same time (using some CPU time). MS Findfast that comes with Office is bad for this, in fact it can be safely disabled without much problem.

Also go to a command prompt and run the dos version of scandisk, is there still a dos defrag?
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