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

Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:25:04 -0800

Hi,

Thanks to all who have replied...the Autoscan=0 change has shut the scandisk
off, gladly, as the next problem would have been a bad enter key.  While I'm
happy to mask the problem, I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on why this
sort of BS happens to begin with.

thanks again

John Collins
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Holyoak" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Win98...not convinced this is a virus

> 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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