Surface Scan

My computer has started locking up after sitting idle for
a period of time (sometimes as short as 30 min.) I have
to turn the power off. While it is booting up after I
turn the power back on it goes to a surface scan for Drive
C looking for bad clusters. This takes about 45 min. to
complete. What is causing this and how can I get out of it.

Do you have any programs running?, have you cleared the Temp/TIF/cookies etc
folders?, ran defrag?

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!


"DKW" wrote in message
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My computer has started locking up after sitting idle for
a period of time (sometimes as short as 30 min.) I have
to turn the power off. While it is booting up after I
turn the power back on it goes to a surface scan for Drive
C looking for bad clusters. This takes about 45 min. to
complete. What is causing this and how can I get out of it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...51&Product=w98
USB Mouse May Hang When the Computer Is Idle for a Long Time

So, if you have "Find Fast", try disabling that.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=199787
OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;158705
OFF97: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;135476
OFF95: Office for Windows 95 Find Fast Indexer Overview


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"DKW" wrote in message
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| My computer has started locking up after sitting idle for
| a period of time (sometimes as short as 30 min.) I have
| to turn the power off. While it is booting up after I
| turn the power back on it goes to a surface scan for Drive
| C looking for bad clusters. This takes about 45 min. to
| complete. What is causing this and how can I get out of it.