How do I disable Windows XP Home disk check

[NYHoustonman]

??? It runs each and every time I boot up now, and I found nothing anywhere else telling me how. This is for my First Computer, btw.

 

[CaseTragedy]

perhaps a good starting place:
link

 

[NYHoustonman]

How do I schedule a disk check?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Are you talking about Scandisk?

Is this a Desktop or Notebook?

Have you let scandisk complete or cancelled early?

 

[NYHoustonman]

This is the disk check program that Windows XP comes with, on a desktop computer (I mentioned it was my First Computer, see sig). I have let it complete once but it did nothing so I just skip through it.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Ah, from your post, it sounds like it was the first computer you've owned. (Correct me if I'm wrong) From your sig, it looks to be your primary computer.

One post from the link CaseTragedy provided:

Try manually running a chkdsk/f and let it schedule one on restart and let it run
There?s a reason its running and you need to find out what it is
stopping from running it is like pulling the battery to shut up the smoke alarm and letting the fire keep going

 

[NYHoustonman]

Yea, but that's what I'm asking, how do I schedule it?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Could be the beer talking, but go Start-->Run-->chkdsk /f

If it needs to run at restart it "should" ask

 

[NYHoustonman]

Just scheduled it, restarted, it ran, restarted again, and no worky ...Anybody else? Maybe I SHOULD delete that registry entry?

 

[corkyg]

If you are using NTFS, CHKDSK will not run unless you tell it to.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Nevermind, solved it, I did a search over at the Annoyances.org forums and got what I needed...Just a simple registry change. Thanks for all the help, especially that link...

 

[Cougar]

You may want to check and see if your drive is bad. Sometimes when a computer runs scandisk upon every startup it's a good indicator that the drive has issues. Just to be on the safe side download a hard drive utility from whoever manufactured your drive and see what it turns up.