Windows 2000 - CheckDisk starts with every system start?

Are you wondering why CheckDisk appears every time you boot up and checks the hard disk for errors? Even after a successful analysis and no errors found, chkdsk.exe (the Windows 2000/XP counterpart to ScanDisk) plagues you every time you restart. The following solutions are available for this problem:

1st possibility:
I discovered that in the Windows registry there is a value that significantly accelerates the shutdown. This value causes Windows to kick out its currently running programs much earlier: Instead of after 20 seconds at the latest, a program is even sent to the Windows hunting grounds after just one millisecond (depending on the user's settings). The problem here is that in some cases data is no longer written correctly to the hard disk, which causes Windows to start the check even if nothing else has happened. It then recognizes the shutdown as a sudden restart of the computer.

Follow this tip: Shut down Windows 2000 much faster

Now set all values to "20000 back. It is quite possible that a system tuning tool (or you yourself) has lowered the value - only a few pages or tools mention the disadvantage that this causes (see at the bottom of that page).
2nd possibility:
Enter once in the "Command prompt ("Start menu > " Programs > "Accessories) the command "chkdsk D: /r on. D stands for the drive! R stands for "Recover. This means that chkdsk repairs readable information from faulty clusters, which in some cases
could stop the permanent start of the tool!
3rd possibility:
The Swap file may contain the autostart entry of "CHKDSK. In this case, it is advisable to have the swap file deleted the next time the system is started. Visit this page and follow the instructions to have the swap file deleted - but you can then create a "0 next to the relevant value if you want to use the "PageFile during shutdown, as this costs a few seconds of time. This option is used so that this swap file does not fragment (this would mean a loss of speed!) or so that hackers cannot read the contents. It is therefore at your own discretion! If you have a good defragmentation program (e.g. O&O Defrag) or your computer is unlikely to be the target of a hacker attack, you can leave this option deactivated.

4th possibility
Now open the Run dialog again and enter cmd. The classic DOS prompt appears, in which you now type chkntfs /d. This entry loads the default settings of the hard disk check, which was successful. I would like to thank Mr. Pockrandt very much for this tip!

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.