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[fennec fox]

I have this problem in my XP setup, to wit:

1. I run something that uses directvideo of some sort, such as RealOne Player or an emulator.
2. I close this application.
3. For about two or three seconds afterward, any other application I try to use is unresponsive; it takes no keypresses and while I can still move the mouse around and click on items on the taskbar as normal, no other application responds to clicking on any of the buttons, and so forth. After the two or three seconds, everything is back to normal.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? It's kind of annoying and I would like to be rid of it. I have a 9700 all-in-wonder and I've already reinstalled the drivers on it, as well as run Ad-aware and all that.

 

[Scrow]

use those three seconds to relax and look away from the monitor

 

[Naked Snake]

Every time I power up my PC or reboot, it goes into Check Disk mode to check one of my drives for errors, it doesn't find any errors every time... How can I stop it from doing that?

 

[Vormund]

you can try chkdsk /f

there is a registry setting for it but try the above in command first.

 

[Naked Snake]

you can try chkdsk /f

there is a registry setting for it but try the above in command first.

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

 

[Vormund]

Is that the drive you have windows on?

Anyway just go ahead with it, and see what happens.

I'll look up the registry setting

 

[Vormund]

You can try this:

Stop CHKDSK from running at boot time.

START | RUN | REGEDIT
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
Change the value: BootExecute
Change the data to: autocheck autochk *

 

[Naked Snake]

Is that the drive you have windows on?

Anyway just go ahead with it, and see what happens.

I'll look up the registry setting

Oops, I forgot to change drives... this is what I get when I run it on the drive that gets checked (not the one Windows is installed on):

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Arthur>e:

E:\>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) n

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) n


I'll try rebooting now and see if it worked, if not I'll try the registery method.

 

[Naked Snake]

That didn't work, and the when I checked the registery, the value is the same as the one in your post (autocheck autochk *)

I guess I'm fucked

Oh and sorry for totally hijacking this thread.

 

[aaaaa0]

Oops, I forgot to change drives... this is what I get when I run it on the drive that gets checked (not the one Windows is installed on):

Do this instead:

Make sure all your programs are closed.

Then:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Arthur> chkdsk e: /f /r /x

And see what happens. (It will take a while.)

 

[maharg]

Is it actually taking a significant amount of time? NTFS does not usually require a full checkdisk, since it logs metadata. A checkdisk should be a couple of seconds at most.

 

[Mr Gump]

I have this problem in my XP setup, to wit:

1. I run something that uses directvideo of some sort, such as RealOne Player or an emulator.
2. I close this application.
3. For about two or three seconds afterward, any other application I try to use is unresponsive; it takes no keypresses and while I can still move the mouse around and click on items on the taskbar as normal, no other application responds to clicking on any of the buttons, and so forth. After the two or three seconds, everything is back to normal.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? It's kind of annoying and I would like to be rid of it. I have a 9700 all-in-wonder and I've already reinstalled the drivers on it, as well as run Ad-aware and all that.

I used to get something similar with IE. Id 'open in new window' and it wouldnt act at all for around 5 seconds. Fuck that.

When things like your problem start happening i usually just format which is a huge hassle especially when you have to back up gb upon gb but it usually results in a lower blood pressure.

 

[Naked Snake]

Do this instead:

Make sure all your programs are closed.

Then:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Arthur> chkdsk e: /f /r /x

And see what happens. (It will take a while.)

I did that and got the following:

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

28587635 KB total disk space.
24070524 KB in 25841 files.
10264 KB in 691 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
133535 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
4373312 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
7146908 total allocation units on disk.
1093328 allocation units available on disk.


Then I restarted and it didn't go into CHKDSK during bootup, seems to have worked, thanks!