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I have XP Prof. and have been using it for years on my laptop Dell computer.
Recently, when booting up the system, a screen opens stating that autochk.exe
cannot be found. The screen goes off, and the system boots up fine with no
apparent problem. I looked in MS knowledge base and came across article
913502 which addresses this problem. The article recommends putting the XP
operating system CD in the CD drive then opening the command prompt and
running the following command: D:\i386\autochk.exe %WINDIR%\system32. When
I do this I get the following response: D:\i386\AUTOCHK.EXE application
cannot be run in Win32 mode. I tried running the command in safe mode and
received the same response. I keep my system up-to-date with security and
other updates; I’ve run a Symantec antivirus check and Ad-Aware and Spybot
check and the system is clear, yet the problem persists. I checked the
internet and found some talk about a particular MS hotfix, HotFix KB824105,
that may be causing the problem, but although I have a number of hotfixes, I
do not have this one. I long ago configured only one NTFS partition. There
may be a Dell OEM partition but I’m not sure. Any suggestions?
Recently, when booting up the system, a screen opens stating that autochk.exe
cannot be found. The screen goes off, and the system boots up fine with no
apparent problem. I looked in MS knowledge base and came across article
913502 which addresses this problem. The article recommends putting the XP
operating system CD in the CD drive then opening the command prompt and
running the following command: D:\i386\autochk.exe %WINDIR%\system32. When
I do this I get the following response: D:\i386\AUTOCHK.EXE application
cannot be run in Win32 mode. I tried running the command in safe mode and
received the same response. I keep my system up-to-date with security and
other updates; I’ve run a Symantec antivirus check and Ad-Aware and Spybot
check and the system is clear, yet the problem persists. I checked the
internet and found some talk about a particular MS hotfix, HotFix KB824105,
that may be causing the problem, but although I have a number of hotfixes, I
do not have this one. I long ago configured only one NTFS partition. There
may be a Dell OEM partition but I’m not sure. Any suggestions?