Shutwon.reg from Kelly's Corner

[Pop`]

Hi,

Windows XP Pro SP2 all updates

Just curious if anyone may have an explanation or comments on the following.
Over the last couple of months I've had a couple Event Viewer warnings that
indicated something corrupt on drive 2 and to run chkdsk, which I did, and
it didn't find anything to fix. That was a couple of weeks or so ago.

I downloaded shutdown.reg (76, right column) from Kelly's Corner a few
minutes ago and ran it.
When I did a Restart, this time the os came up wanting to run chkdsk on that
drive, so I let it.
It found hundreds, maybe thousands of problems on the drive (mostly index
stuff as I recall) and then reran itself a second time and fixed a few more
things.

I restarted again and it came up OK, but when I checked Event Viewer it once
more said to run chkdsk due to file corruption. I ran it two more times and
it said it fixed somethign each time. The last two times I ran it it said
everythign was ok, no problems found.

My questions:
-- Would shutdown.reg have triggered this?
-- Would that be bad or good? All seems fine now and no errors or warnings
in Event Viewer.
-- I'd also be interested in any relevant general comments; I'm the curious
type.
-- Should I back out the changes it made? I have the ability to do that.
But I'd rather have some input to assist before I do.

I do NOT think the shutdown.reg is a faulty app; KC is pretty good and I
also read the contents before I ran it, to see exactly what it was going to
do, so let's not start a witch hunt, OK<g>?

TIA

Pop`

 

[Pennywise]

Hi,

Windows XP Pro SP2 all updates

Just curious if anyone may have an explanation or comments on the following.
Over the last couple of months I've had a couple Event Viewer warnings that
indicated something corrupt on drive 2 and to run chkdsk, which I did, and
it didn't find anything to fix. That was a couple of weeks or so ago.

I downloaded shutdown.reg (76, right column) from Kelly's Corner a few
minutes ago and ran it.
When I did a Restart, this time the os came up wanting to run chkdsk on that
drive, so I let it.
It found hundreds, maybe thousands of problems on the drive (mostly index
stuff as I recall) and then reran itself a second time and fixed a few more
things.

I restarted again and it came up OK, but when I checked Event Viewer it once
more said to run chkdsk due to file corruption. I ran it two more times and
it said it fixed somethign each time. The last two times I ran it it said
everythign was ok, no problems found.

My questions:
-- Would shutdown.reg have triggered this?

I'm guessing here, but it could have something to do with the fact
that it deletes the Pagefile.sys, then reallocates it elsewhere on
boot up.

-not a bad thing to do, in fact a security measure for some.

-- Would that be bad or good? All seems fine now and no errors or warnings
in Event Viewer.

If you get more errors, it's time to look for a new drive, the errors
will just get worse.

-- I'd also be interested in any relevant general comments; I'm the curious
type.
-- Should I back out the changes it made? I have the ability to do that.
But I'd rather have some input to assist before I do.

Look for a X:\FOUND directory, all the bad files will be transferred
there, what you won't see are bad disk sectors that are now being
ignored.

Reading them with a decent text editor, viewing keywords or headers
will tell you what you lost.

Undoing the changes are up to you, I'd see what the files were first.
(a back up of vital files not being a bad idea first)

I do NOT think the shutdown.reg is a faulty app; KC is pretty good and I
also read the contents before I ran it, to see exactly what it was going to
do, so let's not start a witch hunt, OK<g>?

Nothing wrong with shutdown.reg

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management]
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"