<Copy> Do you have anything running in the taskbar? Also turn off all screensavers. Anything writing to the hard drive will cause this. --snip-- > Hello. Since I started using a larger hard drive, neither Scan no Defrag acts like it can work. It restarts and restarts. I > have Norton AV turned off, the firewall turned off, and cable modem turned off. What would keep it from doing the job? <End> No, but there seems to be a plethora of things displayed if I press CTRL - ALT - DEL. END TASKing all of them causes a lock up. Where would I go to turn off the auto loading of all this? Thanks. Robert To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/