Peculiar boot-up problem

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billurie

My XP/SP2 has developed an odd boot-up mode.
Everything comes up fine, normal-looking, and
all the desktop icons appear properly, and the
pointer/cursor appears, and can be moved around,
but the lower tool bar remains empty and the
normal set of start-up programs just doesn't
load. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Solution of
getting going has been to recycle the AC power
and use F8 to start in "Last Remembered System
Configuration". System is clean, bug-and virus-
free. Sad doesn't seem to get into this
partially-hung mode every time, but I'd like a
solution just in case it gets worse......thanks.
 
Hi Bill,

Have you tried setting the system in diagnostic mode (msconfig, general tab)
to see if the response is more normal? If it is, then start looking to
isolate elements in the startup group. The system may be clean, but a
startup program may have been munged or be encountering a corrupted file,
and is hanging at boot. Might also want to run sfc /scannow.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hmmm. Thanks for prompt and great suggestions, Rick.. Problem with
searching to isolate some guilty element in startup group is that it
doesn't seem to be repeatable on demand, so could take forever to
isolate. Please expand on sfc /scannow ......I frequently run chkdsk/r
and rarely find anything.
 
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