Vista - Autocheck program not found skipping autocheck message at bootup

I keep getting the message "Autocheck program not found skipping autockeck" each time I boot or reboot which is very annoying. Has anyone else seen this message and if so, does anyone know how to get rid of it?

Run chkdsk /r

Go into cmd prompt (as admin) and type:
~Lordbob

can also check and get rid of it on " msconfig" i suppose,, It got that once

I ran chkdsk /r and sfc /scannow but neither of these removed the autocheck message. I looked im msconfig and could not find a reference to autocheck.

Does anyone know if there is supposed to be an autocheck.exe program in the windows/system32 folder because it doesn't exist in mine? But there is an autochk.exe program in the windows/system32 folder.

I'm beginning to think I'll just have to put up with this message every time I boot or reboot my system!!!

autocheck and chkdsk are basically the same thing, except autocheck is run on bootup. They both look for problems on the disk.

To disable automatic disk checking at Windows startup through registry, go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager


In the right hand pane, double click BootExecute.


The default value of the key is autocheck autochk *


* means every drive is checked for consistency. Just add /K:C at the end before *. /K switch will disable autocheck on C: drive at Windows startup. So the final value should look like this:


autocheck autochk /k:C *

Thank you. This information worked. Before I made the change you suggested the value in Bootexecute was as follows:

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Jim/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]autocheck "autocheck""autocheck autochk *"""
autocheck autochk /k:C *
autocheck smrgdf C:\Users\Jim\Appdata\Roaming\Iolo\

I deleted the 1st and 3rd lines and rebooted. I no longer get this message. However, I don't know what the lines I deleted do but hopefully they are not important. Thanks again for your help.