Recently sent the following, which was received from a friend, to PC Tech and the moderator there suggested I submit this here.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.  I do not use Win 2000, so am totally unfamiliar with it.

Jack D. Rees
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Jack

I have a Dell P4 1.5ghz, 512RAM, 60gigHD, GForce264meg graphics. I run Win2000 Pro on it.

It seems lock up a lot lately and then the computer has to reboot. When it reboots, the "scandisk" dialog feature comes up and tells me I have 'X' number of seconds to hit any key to stop the scan, or else it will then scan my computer attempting to find any problems.

I am quite used to the scan feature, I have used it a lot with Win98 and ME. However, my problem is, I don't want to run the scan feature every time I have to reboot because of a problem. When I get the message to hit any key to stop the scan, it does not work. It just goes on ahead and does the scan. The actual scan takes quite a while to do. I am sick of the wait.

I am aware of the consequences.... however I want to disable the scan feature in Win2000. There must be a registry hack that will do this for me. Can you help?

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