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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 9:12 pm
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Posted by devilzs (2 messages posted)





On Monday, August 27, 2001 at 7:01 pm, aquafishx2 wrote:
>everytime I start windows 'scandisk.exe' starts up. I have tried everything I know
>about windows to stop this (I have been using windows since 3.1, so I know a thing
>or two about it) and it still dosen't work. I've tried 'msconfig' 'regedit' and the
>startup folder and still no joy. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
> try editing msdos.sys with notepad but before that make sure its read-only property is unchecked. change the value of "autoscan" to "0" (zero). and then make it a read-only file again.


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Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (aquafishx2: Monday, August 27, 2001 at 7:01 pm)

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-Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (aquafishx2: Mon, Aug 27, 2001, 7:01 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (john.southwell: Fri, Oct 19, 2001, 7:47 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (daniel: Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 1:38 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (devilzs: Thu, Sep 5, 2002, 9:07 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (kavitha: Mon, Jun 10, 2002, 10:23 pm)
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*re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Mon, Aug 27, 2001, 7:19 pm)
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