>>Is there any way to turn off scandisk at boot if Win98 is shutdown improperly?
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>It's in the registry. I don't know the key is but you can change it easily with x-teq's x-Setup utility. http://www.xteq.com/ It's shareware.

It did help. I generated a reg modification macro with it and it indicated

put "AutoScan=0" in Section "OPTIONS" to file "C:\MSDOS.SYS"

Thanks!