Windows 7 checking disk on every boot [Solved]
I’ve been having problems with Windows 7 doing an automatic disk check on every boot. Having let it run through it isn’t due to errors, but takes hours to complete for some reason and it re-occurs again and I’ll prefer to do it manually instead.
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 *
The * means every drive is checked for consistency. To exclude the C drive from being checked, add /K:C to the command.
autocheck autochk /k:C *
You can exclude additional drives too.
autocheck autochk /k:C /k:D *
If you want to restore everything to default, restore the default setting.
autocheck autochk *
This works for me. There are other suggestions out on the web which suggest running a full check to get things back to normal, but having done that the problem resurfaced and it is creating more of a problem than it solves. I didn’t require this feature with Windows XP.
