Quick overview:
A crash is often unavoidable with the Millennium Edition of Windows and so every disgruntled user will have become accustomed to the cumbersome procedure of having the hard disk check program report when the computer is shut down incorrectly and subject all data to a thorough check to ensure that everything is in order.
However, especially on faster computers with IDE hard disks (and most of them are these days), this can lead to considerable difficulties, as Windows cannot empty the cache containing important data such as your own files or system parts in time. And this is how you solve this problem:
1. Click on this link to download the official Microsoft patch for this error. Once the download is complete, just double-click and the ScanDisk problem is finally history.
2. If this is still not the case, you must set the time in which Windows writes the files to the hard disk yourself so that there is enough time for the backup. To do this, click on Start/Execute and carry regedit in.
3. Now shimmy through the Windows registration to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Right-click in the right-hand pane and select New/DWORD Value.
3. You call this newly created value CacheWriteDelay and double-click on it. Now select Decimal and enter 1800, which gives the computer 1800 milliseconds, which is the best value based on our own experience.
Now restart your computer - you will find that you have got rid of the annoying check once and for all and the risk of something happening has been greatly reduced.
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.
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