HI , Wonder if you can help? I have Windows XP. When I switch on a blue screen comes up saying disks need checking, press any key to cancel. If I cancel, it opens normally, if I don't press and it does a disk check, I get a whole lot of numbers saying unreadable....then nothing. I als have Norton Anti Virus etc and it fdoes a full system check every week and all seems ok. ANy advice greatly appreciated Jennifer

... to turn off "chkdsk" ... go to start run (type) cmd [press ENTER] (type) chkntfs /x c: [press ENTER] **************************************************** ...OR 1. Go to Start ,Run and type in regedit. 2. Navigate to the +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE , then go to the following subkey: \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager 3. Change the BootExecute entry to: autocheck autochk * 4. Exit your registry. 5. Restart. . . Grrrr "...pentathol makes you sing like a canary" http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/... ... got brain freeze

Hi Mavis007, Many thanks for your help, I did the first option and it seems to have worked! Jennifer