No chkdsk /f at reboot!

Ain't that an elegant title...?

Well, the sounds coming out of my mouth weren't much more elegant (guess what the "F" stands for...) as I was despairing because the blasted XP would flatly ignore its own scheduled tasks, including the "chkdsk" after reboot to which it forced me (arguing that the disk cannot be accessed or something... Is it too much to expect from a multi-billion company to devise a way of checking the disk in a less cumbersome manner...?)

So... do you want to know how to solve this glitch?
(Oh, it happens much more often than you would be led to believe by some Microsoft "experts"!)

The moral solution: ditch Windows and load some other OS.

The immoral solution: don't reboot - turn the PC off and then turn it on again (yes, it should be the same, but don't expect Microsoft to go by human logic).

That'll do the trick.

(And you thought this one post was going to dispense with the usual moral lessons... ;)