Is there a way to turn off the detector mid-run so that a solvent peak can be removed, while still getting peaks both before and after the solvent?

I'm decently familiar with Agilent's ChemStation software, but this is tricky. I'm developing a method for analyzing ethanol solvent impurities, and there's potentially 8 peaks. While a solvent delay works for testing everything after the solvent peak, my solvent is coming out at #3 of the 8 peaks. Is there a way to run the method and only turn off the detector for say between the 3-5 minute marks, so as to both observe all the impurities before/after the ethanol solvent without being drowned out by the solvent and to protect the MS detector from the solvent hit?

 

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