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To: Gottfried who wrote (18764)	4/16/2001 12:21:50 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110583

<<E, in Win98 start>programs>accessories>system tools>scheduled tasks>> Thank you. I went there. Maybe I found something interesting, i'm not sure. When I went to scheduled tasks, the tasks listed were scheduled for reasonable intervals, it seemed to me. I mean infrequently enough or at times that couldn't explain blocking defragging. But the Semantec NetDetect said "Every 5 minutes from 11:09am for 24 hours every day starting at 2/21/?" Under "Settings" the only thing checked is to stop the task if it runs for 72 hours. I do see that all of the tasks give you the option to disable. But it seems as though EndItAll would have shut all this down, since no programs show as open but Explorer, Systray and EndItAll, but maybe...? Does anyone have any diagnostic thoughts about this?

To: Gottfried who wrote (18764)	4/16/2001 12:30:28 PM
From: Bob Pittsfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110583

E, in Win98 start>programs>accessories>system tools>scheduled tasks Very interesting......I tried this in my WinME and found all kinds of things to investigate. I have something called "Tune up Application" which runs "walign" once a month. I have "Symantic Net Detect" which runs "NETDECT.EXE" every 5 minutes and "PCHEALTH Scheduler for Data Collection" (windows\pchealth\support\PCHSUD.EXE), which runs every 10 minutes. I also have run live update for Norton AntiVirus which never runs, yet I get updates on an automatic basis. Not sure, but this may be left over from an earlier version. I never heard of some of most of these programs but it sure would explain why I do most of my scandisks using a boot disk in dos. I have to go out for an hour or so but if anyone has any clues as to what some of these are I would appreciate hearing it. Would save me some detecting time.<gg> Edit: I am running Norton Utilities 2001 and Norton Anti virus 2001. Bob