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  1. #1
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    disabling chkdsk during 2000 boot

    Hullo;

    When a program like lavasoft's AdAware is run they sometimes
    display message boxes about directories or files that are corrupt.
    Now the directories are not corrupt, they are just inaccessible to
    anyone but the system account ( I can take ownership and
    change the properties and view the dirs and files without probs.)

    Now when this happens, chkdsk or whatever program 2000 uses
    to check the harddrive runs the next time the computer boots.And
    it takes approx 15 minutes to do its thing ! Is there some setting
    that I can manipulate that will prevent this program from ever
    running during startup ? What setting do these programs or
    2000 set to force this program to run ?

    Now I've found this key and I think this is the command that
    starts it all. Does anyone know who sets this key and if I can
    prevent them from setting it ? If I just delete this one key will
    I have problems next time I boot ?
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager] "BootExecute" = autocheck autochk *

    Windows 2000 pro. no backoffice, sms stuff.
    mdmd
    Last edited by mdmd; March 12th, 2003 at 09:24 PM.

  2. #2
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    I have a different value there

    Look at attached zipped Bmp. THat is the value I have in that key, and my Os does not perform checkdisk on boot.
    But if I were you, I would check also in Bios settings....
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  3. #3
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    Thanks. I actually tried removing the key first. I wouldn't
    recomend removing the key unless you Ghost your setup or
    backup your os as the computer won't reboot without the key.
    So, after I Ghosted my OS back I didn't bother with that program
    again and now it never runs chkdsk on startup.

    There are articles in the msdn about autocheck and its params.
    Just nothing about how to stop it from ever running. So, I'm stuck
    with just not running adaware as I don't want to change the
    permissions on the folders.

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