[Ham-Computers] Win98...not convinced this is a virus

[Trevor Holyoak]

According to Microsoft it does:

"Disable Scandisk After Bad Shutdown
When your system fails to shutdown properly, Windows 98 automatically 
runs ScanDisk the next time that the system loads. When you're 
troubleshooting shutdown problems, the last thing you want to deal with 
is ScanDisk coming up every time that you restart the system. Enabling 
this setting prevents ScanDisk from running and is the equivalent of 
adding the line Autoscan=0 to the Msdos.sys file." - 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinpro00/html/w9p0095.asp

(This also answers the question of how to keep it from running.)

- Trevor

Al Simcoe wrote:
> 
> Anytime your computer is not "properly" shutdown (as is the case when it
> 
> crashes and you have to reboot it), it will automatically run Scandisk 
> to make sure nothing's wrong
> 
> Not every time. Only depending  upon certain conditions.
>  
> Al Simcoe
> 
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