MSCONFIG Boot - Stuck in Safe Mode or Selective Startup

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This has not been a week that's made me much enamored of Vista.

In order to troubleshoot my parents' Vista PC after their wireless
mouse/keyboard suddenly stopped working after 4/9's automatic updates, I had
to a do a system restore from Safe Mode. Their corded USB keyboard we got to
work (along with a PS2 mouse) to do the fixing wouldn't work using the
F8-method to get into Safe Mode, so I had use MSCONFIG to force a safe mode
boot.

The system restore worked, and I've disabled automatic updates until MS
comes out with a fix for the apparently widespread original problem, but now
I'm stuck with a very frustrating situation.

My parents' computer will only boot up into Selective Startup (which leaves
some important things such as graphics drivers unloaded) or into Safe Mode.
Within MSCONFIG, when I choose "Normal Startup", it automatically checks the
"Safe Mode" Box in the boot tap, and when I uncheck that box, it
automatically selects "Selective Start" on the previous tab. (I've tried
hitting apply on each of the tabs, but it doesn't help).

I've found a few other threads with this same problem across the web, but
never found a solution. Can anyone help?

Thanks very much.
 
Hi,

Don't know if this will help you but worth a shot. Try running Msconfig in
Administrator Mode and make your changes. Click Start, at the bottom of the
menu you will see Start Search, in that box type Msconfig, at the top you
will see it appear. Right click Msconfig and select Run as Administrator.

If this don't work you can try AutoRuns
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cb56073f-62a3-4ed8-9dd6-40c84cb9e2f5.aspx
It's far superior to Msconfig, but you need to run it as Administrator as
well. When it opens click the Logon tab.

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All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
 
Hi SG,

Thanks very much for the reply. I took your suggestion along with one from
here (
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/703740-solved-msconfig-stuck-safe-mode.html
) to check the "Make All Boot Settings Permanent" box in the boot tab and
press apply.

Unfortunately, I was impatient, and did both at the same time, so I don't
know if only one, or both work to solve the problem, or if both are
necessary; in any case, something worked and everything's booting properly
now. As a note to anyone else who runs into this problem, I had to reselect
the Aero Appearance manually the first time once everything had booted up
normally.

Thanks again for the successful help!

Vista MSCONFIG Normal Startup Stuck Safe Mode Selective Startup Troubleshoot
Tech Support Help Problem Solution Fix Fixed
 
Hi,

Well if would have been nice to know which one worked, but what really
matters is you got it fixed. I'll keep the link you provided and pass it
along next time as well. Thanks for posting back and that link.

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All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
 
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