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Error message- autochk not found

it just happened today;

i noticed when i boot up- i receive an error message-
system root\windows\system 32\autochk.exe not found      skipping autochk

then it boots up fine and no problems-  what is the cure for this message?
i am using win xp home with ntfs.
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i just did a search and found autochk.exe is located in two locations.

c:\windows\i386  and c:\windows\system32  

i already did a scannow and no changes.
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thanks dave-

1)  i went to the site; here's what they wrote:

But within my system like all others the entry in the registry looked fine.
(localmachine/system/currentcontrolset/control/sessionmanager).

Looking more exactly showed me the solution of the problem - instead
of "autocheck autochk *" the entry was "autocheck autochk*" - a space
missing between autochk and the * - since the change everything works
fine again - after "unpredictable reboots" the chkdsk command is
running via autochk for dirty-flaged partitions - like it should be.

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so i went to regedit and went all the way to sessionmanager but i saw no entry of "autocheck autocheck autochk* or autocheck autochk *  

what should i do?

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2)  also did some searching around and found another opinion- they wrote:

what I did for Home XP:  Went into registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro
l\Session Manager\

In session manager (to the right) I created a Multistring Value and named it BootExecute.

In value data I put:
BootExecute : REG_MULTI_SZ : autocheck autochk *

Dave- i did all that but at the last minute i chickened out and never did it.
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yes the bootexecute was missing entirely.  now to try it out- entering the reg data.
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Bingo! Thanks Dave.

I am not sure what happened to lose it. I think I was using Registry First Aid and that might have caused it.  

It so difficult to find a really good registry cleaner. any really fantastic ones?

Again thanks
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That seems an unusual entry for a cleaner to "clean", but anything's possible.
I've used a few in the past, but I've given up with them for now.
I found I *always* had to look over the candidates for deletion that it just wasn't
worth it.   I won't recommend one, but there are plenty of good and balanced
articles on the web.  Here's one:
http://users.accesscomm.ca/gbraun/wxp/registry.htm

Dave
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thanks dave and good luck to you!!!

cm