How to terminate a worker thread correctly in c#

Question

Problem statement

I have a worker thread that basically scans a folder, going into the files within it, and then sleeps for a while. The scanning operat

Answer 1

I came up with separately scheduling the task:

using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace ProjectEuler
{
    class Program
    {
        //const double cycleIntervalMilliseconds = 10 * 60 * 1000;
        const double cycleIntervalMilliseconds = 5 * 1000;
        static readonly System.Timers.Timer scanTimer =
            new System.Timers.Timer(cycleIntervalMilliseconds);
        static bool scanningEnabled = true;
        static readonly ManualResetEvent scanFinished =
            new ManualResetEvent(true);

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            scanTimer.Elapsed +=
                new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(scanTimer_Elapsed);
            scanTimer.Enabled = true;

            Console.ReadLine();
            scanningEnabled = false;
            scanFinished.WaitOne();
        }

        static void  scanTimer_Elapsed(object sender,
            System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            scanFinished.Reset();
            scanTimer.Enabled = false;

            if (scanningEnabled)
            {
                try
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Processing");
                    Thread.Sleep(5000);
                    Console.WriteLine("Finished");
                }
                finally
                {
                    scanTimer.Enabled = scanningEnabled;
                    scanFinished.Set();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}