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You need to turn off your Screen Saver and CLOSE all open programs/applications.
You can use Ctrl + Alt + Delete and close each program except for Explorer and Systray. i find it much easier to use the Free EndItAll2 program to close my many applications and programs before doing a Scandisk and Defrag:
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EndItAll2.zip is a program that lets you close all running programs. Comes in handy when wanting to do a Scandisk or Defrag or wanting to close all open programs prior to an install.
Download (it's FREE) from:
http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/
You also may want to download the ME defrag program. It works in 98 and is much faster (often recommended in this group):
DEFRAGGER 4.90.3000
This utility is part of the Windows ME operating system, but it will work just as well with Windows 95 and 98. After you download it from
http://www.geocities.com/one_human/progalpha.html
unzip it to the C:\WINDOWS folder. Rename the 95/98 "defrag.exe" file to "defrag_old.exe". Rename the new "WinME_defrag.exe" file to "defrag.exe". You will now have the benefit of watching the defragging process complete much faster than it did before.
The above is from TSG member flavallee's Frank's Windows 95/98 Tips
http://9337387.home.icq.com/index.html
When you're looking for the utility at the download site, it is near the bottom and is titled: WinME Defrag.