St. wrote:
>     XP does this when rebooting from a problem anyway,

Really? I've never had XP actually run a chkdsk just because of a 
reboot, even a crash. It's supposed to just apply/roll back the 
journal/log/whatever they call it.

I've often found that problems like this are caused by failing disk 
sectors in places like the swap file. You might want to run a
"chkdsk /f /r" a couple times when the machine's otherwise mostly idle.

I've several times had a machine that was acting flakier and flakier 
over the course of a week or two, then pop up a dialog saying "found a 
bad sector in (important system structure), relocating" and had 
everything start being smooth again.

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