Program not found skipping autocheck xp

vampm

January 2, 2011 2:46:28 PM

Hi all! my computer at every boot displays this, before the login screen:

t program not found skipping autocheck
o program not found skipping autocheck
c program not found skipping autocheck
* program not found skipping autocheck
* program not found skipping autocheck
* program not found skipping autocheck
* program not found skipping autocheck
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where * is letter names ( like t ,o ,c ) but i cant remember them..
I tried chkdsk, nothing... From recovery console chkdsk, nothing... Repaired xp (like reinstall), nothing...

Why is this??? Any idea how to fix it?

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vampm

January 2, 2011 4:16:07 PM

Also, the chkdsk always finds errors in the disk, and doesn't fix them. I considered to use fixmbr, but i am afraid to do it. Of course windows are working fine, but there are these problems...

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Saga Lout

January 2, 2011 4:38:48 PM

Use your XP CD to boot the system and go through the process until you see the Repair option. At the Command Prompt, type chkdsk /r (including the space) and the /r switch will seek out error and fix them while the system isn't live so you get a better quality check than that which runs in the GUI. It's a five stage process and may take some time.

When you restart into XP, defragment the hard disk data just for good measure and use CCleaner from http://www.piriform.com to wipe the free space by ticking that option in the list of cleaning options. Again that will take quite a while in a large disk but it will give you a clean start.

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vampm

January 2, 2011 6:33:20 PM

I already had a repair. Dadiggle, no, nothing of these... I use pagedefrag , and i dont know if this creates any problems. Also, i thing that this happent after i did this:
After the clock showed 12 o clock, the first day of the new year, the cpu reached 100% without any reason, and i didn't see what application did it. After this i saw 2 dllhost and something like vscss.exe (i thing) and i terminated them (of course the dllhosts reappeared many times). The next day I turned on my pc i saw this program not found - skipping autocheck

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vampm

January 2, 2011 6:40:20 PM

(When the clock showed EXACTLY 12 oclock, then for a few seconds the cpu was @ 100%. Very weird...)

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vampm

January 2, 2011 9:13:39 PM

I searched for this file, and i found it with the simple search of windows, and this file is somehow original file of window, i mean its not a virus or something.. I checked it in the site you told me and it was clean. The other guy that had the same problem in the other forum you said, had any luck???

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tigsounds

January 2, 2011 9:42:10 PM

That file (program) just looks at the hard drive(s) checking for the "dirty bit" determining if a chkdsk is needed (due to a bad shutdown). If you want to do a chkdsk, run it manually. This file missing is of little importance.

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Saga Lout

January 3, 2011 6:37:39 AM

These change of year date problems have been known to be down to TweakUi type utilities. Have you any of those in your system?

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vampm

January 3, 2011 8:13:38 AM

i don't have tweakui and adware in my system, nothing of these. I searched in registry for these values and I found nothing..

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vampm

January 3, 2011 8:20:08 AM

Tigsounds, I remember, after i shut down the vscss.exe, the next day i boot and i saw these messages before the login, my computer did a chekdisk...

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vampm

January 3, 2011 8:27:21 AM

Just found this in registry!!! I searched for "autocheck" and found this in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> ControlSet001 -> Control -> Session Manager :

a key named BootExecute (when I searched before, it didn't found it..) has the messages that appear before the login :

autocheck autochk *
autocheck
autocheck t
autocheck o
autocheck c
autocheck h
autocheck e
autocheck c
autocheck k
autocheck
autocheck p
autocheck g
autocheck d
autocheck f
autocheck g
autocheck s
autocheck v
autocheck c
autocheck
autocheck C
autocheck
autocheck 1

thats exacly what this key has!!

Why this happend, and what exactly to do with this key???

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Saga Lout

January 3, 2011 9:47:43 AM

Delete evry line except the first one - autocheck autochk* - then restart the computer twice.

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vampm

January 3, 2011 10:12:28 AM

Yes, always turn off windows updates (thats what i do always). Problem solved!!! I had to also delete the same lines from ContlolSet002. In the ControlSet it was fine

ControlSet001
ControlSet002
ControlSet

that's what was in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Any idea why this happened, and why I have these duplicates (the ControlSet001 and 002 i thing that the are duplicates of the ControlSet)???

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devanshuoza7

January 7, 2013 4:39:38 PM

Saga Lout said:

Use your XP CD to boot the system and go through the process until you see the Repair option. At the Command Prompt, type chkdsk /r (including the space) and the /r switch will seek out error and fix them while the system isn't live so you get a better quality check than that which runs in the GUI. It's a five stage process and may take some time.

When you restart into XP, defragment the hard disk data just for good measure and use CCleaner from http://www.piriform.com to wipe the free space by ticking that option in the list of cleaning options. Again that will take quite a while in a large disk but it will give you a clean start.

dude i followed ur instructions but still em gttng d same msg............

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