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re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?'
Wednesday, September 5, 2001 at 5:56 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James
(1 messages posted)
The problem your having isnt actually that windows is loading scandisk at startup.
This would explain why checking the registry, win.ini, and startup folder has failed
to produce a cure. Whenever your hard disk develops error, ie bad sectors, windows
will run scandisk each and every time your computer loads BEFORE windows is actually
loaded. There are 2 ways to remedy this. 1 is to let scandisk run thought its dos
based thorough scandisk, which while it takes a long time in dos, may save you a
headache in the long run. Your disk may very well be developing bad sectores and
they should be marked as to aviod losing data written to them. You may even consider
backing up your good data and purchasing a new hard drive. However, if your a fly
by the seat of your pants kinda person and throw caution to the wind, there is another
way to disable scandisk running altogether. At the run promt type msconfig and choose
the advanced option in the lower right hand corner. You'll be presented with a number
of dirrefent troubleshooting options in checkbox style. Half way down you will see
"disable scandisk after bad shutdown"...put a check in that box and goodbye blue
skies...err screens. Remember though...scandisk is actually there for your protection.
On Monday, August 27, 2001 at 11:56 pm, Rundll wrote:
>have you ever let scandisk completely finish? it resets a flag when it gets done
>so it won't start next time.
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>On Monday, August 27, 2001 at 7:01 pm, aquafishx2 wrote:
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>>everytime I start windows 'scandisk.exe' starts up. I have tried everything I know
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>>about windows to stop this (I have been using windows since 3.1, so I know a thing
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>>or two about it) and it still dosen't work. I've tried 'msconfig' 'regedit' and
>the
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>>startup folder and still no joy. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
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