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Auto Scanning is Bugging!!!

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by akshoo

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Hi

I don't know how to describe my problem but believe me I have never been bugged so much in my whole life by an O.S and that too by the great Win 98. What actaully is happening whenever I shut down my P.C it shut down normally but when I start the P.C the message appears is that you have not shut down the P.C properly and so autoscan will start. And so it does and I have to escape from it. What I did next that I changed the value of AutoScan command line to '0' in MSDOS.sys file but now ifsuppose P.C stops then the Auto Scan which normally in any good pc would have appeared doesn't appeared. Please help me I am really getting tired of this O.S and the Auto Scan message. Is there any way out. Please reply back soon.

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by zamski

What do you mean you "escape from it". Did you let it finish or did you interrupt it before it was finished? You should let it finish if you have not and then it should not bother you anymore.

by akshoo

I have in earlier attempts allowed it to run fully but it didn't help me and i still see the window so when to Auto Scan starts I just interrupt it before it is finished.
So please help me

by madmacx9

Hi
Autoscan can be a pain, particularly when you know the system was closed properly. I'm not sure which flag is set to cause the problem, but a short term fix I use often is to open in safe mode then immediately shutdown,. on the next reboot the system appears to start up again properly, without the autoscan. Until the next time it screws up again that is!!!

by akshoo

No I tried but the problem is still there. Hey one thing more I have a pirated version of Win 98 does it matter.

by yacco

Try this.
Go to start, run, and type in msconfig. a window will pop up displaying the general tab. Click the advanced button. Find the line that says "disable fast shutdown". Put a check in the box. Click OK. Close the program, reboot. Your computer will be in the same state when it shuts down this first time. Reboot again to see if this fixes the promlem. Fast shutdown is sometimes too quick for some background processes to properly close down and this can cause all kinds of problems for Windows.

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