Netscape writes to hard disk?

[Carolyn Noah]

Friends,
Netscape was left open (though inactive) while running ScanDisk on a 
computer.  We got a repeated message I'd never seen before, to the 
effect that "a program is writing to the hard disk".  Once Netscape 
was closed, ScanDisk ran fine.

I'm puzzled that Netscape was writing to the disk while inactive.  
Anyone had any experience with this?

Many thanks,
Carolyn

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Carolyn Noah,  Consultant
Central MA Regional Library System
Worcester 01608
508 799-1697
508 799-1611 (fax)