Hi, i got a problem with my Defrag/Scandisk. It seems whenever i run a standard check with scandisk, it takes forever to finish until WinME says something like scandisk has restarted 10 times, there could be a program intereferring with scandisk. I disabled all my programs (ZoneAlarm, NaV, ICS) at the bottom right but it is still the same! The same thing also happens for defrag except that it keeps re-read drive contents. help!!!

I have found that it is better to run scandisk and defrag from the safe prompt. It is the easiest and quickest way, that I know, to eliminate all the background programs that conflict with disk cleanup.

To get to safe mode,reboot computer and tap the f8 key until boot screen appears.Choose safe mode.

Alternately, you can hit ctrl-alt-del and close every process in the task manager EXCEPT explorer and systray.

Travis, You need to close most of the programs running in the backgrown and the best way to do this is to get *enditall 2* at google. Enditall 2 will close only the programs that are not needed and protect the ones that are needed. It will even let you close your screen saver and power management. First I close the programs in the system tray, the icons by the clock, then I use enditall 2,then do a disk clean, then scan disk and then defrag. On a 34 gb drive it only takes 15 or 20 min. if you do this about every 2 or 3 days. I also have Norton but I don't use it, it has given me more problems than it has fixed. I use AVG antivirus You can do a google search for this too. Both AVG and enditall 2 are freeware. thebest2uDon

Travis, Did you shutdown your screensaver before you run defrag? If not try it, might help.