Thanks ya'all for the tips. They're appreciated!!
OK Mr Mark, you asked for it ;-)
The initial reason for the question was Norton's seemingly(sp?) inability to fix an error when running the 'one button' check. It found one error in the disk defrag check. Clicking the 'fix' launched the repair and it ran and ran and raaaannnnnnn... 14 hours later(overnight) it was still scanning with only about a 27% complete done... I clicked end task and the computer froze. Hard reboot and I'm back. I tried norton again and that one error was still there. Ran Disk Doctor and had the same result. I tried Nortons Tech's service and talked with a guy named Steve..., He told me to run windows clean up, defrag, and scan disk (thorough). I asked him if that was what Nortons utility was supposed to do and reminded him that was the reason for the question. He didn't answer(suggested I follow his instructions...), so I figured that he was saying that Norton was the problem. I did what he asked and ran the win apps. No errors or problems were found, took about five hours. While running scan disk I got the message about an app writing to the disk. Hence the question to the board.
I also asked him if there might be a memory allocation problem, thinking about the programs that may be running. He said that wasn't an issue. That may have been a wrong/bad question which leads to my first question Mr. Mark. Would system resources fit into the above situation? If all the background applications are using most of the available computer power then when launching scan disk would that slow down the system to a stop or what seems like a frozen computer?
Checking the task manager I have 20 applications running... For example, I think that Qagent and Qshelf2k belong to Quicken. Do these need to be running all the time? Is there a way to keep these apps from loading in the future if they're not needed except to run Quicken? I blindly followed some software installs, clicking next, next, next... figured they new what was best...
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