Can someone help me with this? Scandisk keeps restarting because it says a program keeps writing to the dosk. Well, I had 5 programs running -- Explorer, systray, printray, hidserv and ccapp. I've consulted Microsoft articles and disabled the quick launch bar, ran NIS 2003, House Call, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Trojan Remover and RegCleaner. All negative. I don't know what to do. There's sytem restore, I suppose, but I just renewed my NIS subscription online and I don't want a hassle with Symantec. Their site makes me think maybe I have the Bugbear virus, but the scans show nothing. I might add that this all started after Norton detected a virus in the temporary Internet filers folder while I was web surfing. I deleted it right away but didn't note what it was. This Scandisk thing hasn't happened before. I'm kind of a novice, so I'd be grateful for some good input, and many many thanks in advance!!

TomR, it can be really frustrating when your 'box' won't do what you want...Try doing it in 'safe mode'. Your computer loads a minimum of programs, drivers, etc., in 'safe mode' In case you don't know how to get there, boot up and as soon as the windows screen shows, begin tapping F8, when the option comes up, select #3, 'safe mode'. Recommended by many for 'Defrag' too. HTH. Ed in Texas.

A firewall logging hits will cause Defrag/Scandisk to restart. Scheduled Tasks starting and exiting will cause writes to the disk which cause Defrag/Scandisk to restart. Automatic Windows Updates and Automatic Internet Explorer updates write to theie log file every time they check to see if updates are available while you are connected to the Internet, restarting Defrag/Scandisk. These checks do not show in the running programs check list. How are you checking what programs are running. The Task List only shows those that want you to know they are running. You need something like WINTOP to show you what is running. Fix ME

Boot to safe mode. Restart, and before Windows loads, hold down shift key. Much easier than trying to disable programs.

Thank you all, Ed, Jack and Robert. Instead of running Scandisk in safe mode right away (takes 8 hrs.) I did a system restore and took chances with my just-renwed subscription to Symantec's NIS. But while I had it all uninstalled I ran Scandisk in Windows -- and it was fine! Then I reinstalled NIS and the problem seems to have cleared up. Maybe it was Norton that "gifted" me w/something when I re-upped. Thanks for all the good advice, though. And Jack, I did download Wintop. Very interesting to see what's actually running.