Update notification tool disturbs power saving features ?

Hi !

Using a Compaq Armada E500 laptop running under Win98SE freshly reinstalled,
I observed that after the screen enters "sleep mode", it comes back on,
usually after a few minutes - if not seconds.

By trial and error, I pinned down the task monitor as being the culprit
(suspending it correctly leaves the screen off until the mouse or keyboard
is activated).

Since there are only 4 tasks programmed in the task monitor (disk cleaning,
scandisk & defrag once a week and update notification tool every five
minutes !!), I guess this is the latter which is causing the wake up of the
screen.


Strangely enough, I never noticed that behavior on a similarly configured
desktop computer.

Any idea on what to do to keep both features functionning NORMALLY ?

TIA