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Eorimouse, I found a cause for this problem. I am running Zone Alarm firewall software & I found a link to one of their forums that specifically states a problem with this NTFS message on strt-up and the newest updates to their software: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board...heckdisk*#M6037 After removing the software and restarting my PC I no longer recieved the message on start-up and things seem better. Hope this helps.

OK I was having some issues with my laptop the other day with certain programs (Explorer and Music apps) not responding after a few minutes of usage. Using task manager to close just gave me the END NOW message and did nothing. After about 30 minutes, items in the tray started to fall off one by one and the computer finally turned off. I deleted the Music app thinking it was the culprit and made sure all security updates for XP were installed. A friend of mine tole me to right click the "C" drive and have it check and fix errors. Now I get the following message on start up: "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot open volume for direct access. Windows has finished checking the disk." After this it goes straight to the blue passowrd screen and everyhting seems to work OK. The only other noticeable issue is that it takes longer for the items in my tray to load as compared to be fore this problem. The only recent mod to this PC is I added 256K of memory from Crucial.com to have a total of 512K of memory, and that was over a month ago. Thanks in advance for your help.