Chkdsk Runs Each Time That You Start Your Computer ==========Check Disk How to schedule a CHKDSK on every boot To change this behavior: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon In the list look for "SFCScan", this should be set to (0) if it is set to (1) the scan will happen at every boot. Chkdsk Runs Each Time That You Start Computer After Upgrade to Windows XP Another Option: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager Look for the REG_MULTI_SZ value with the following name: BootExecute. This value contains commands that will be executed at startup. The default value is: autocheck autochk * After scheduling one or more chkdsks, the entry will contain one or more autochk lines. Delete each of these lines and put the default one in place. If you always want a check to be performedf at startup, change the value to: autocheck autochk /f * If you don't want any checks to be performed, delete all autocheck entries. Scandisk after a Bad Shutdown - Go to Start/Run/CMD and type in: CHKNTFS/T:4 Where 4 is the amount of waiting time.====================
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