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Windows Home 5.1 with SP3
Compaq Presario, 3 to 4 years old
Recently (last calendar week) boot and startup seemed slower than usual
(removed norton 360, installed mcaffee from comcast on or about 2/27)
Thursday 3/5 boot and startup hung before displaying toolbar. Able to access
only a few programs, NOT "START" on toolbar, NOT system restore. I was able
to find a diagnostic log (unable to repeat today) that seemed to indicate one
or more of several background programs were not able to complete opening.
Attempts 3/5, 3/6 also failed. Ran hard drive maintenance (spinrite) 3/7 and
3/8 (takes a long time).
Tonight (3/8), a little more of toolbar displayed, but "start" and any other
place on toolbar gives hourglass.
Alt|Cntrl|Del > will get task manager, and allows terminating non responsive
programs and shutdown.
Shutdown> turnoff attempts to end
{44c6fb81-kbdwindcls-b4f7-11d9fdd0800460222f0}, fails to end, reports program
as not responding, > select end now. Windows shuts down, turns off computer.
Rebooted again while working on this. Can't believe it. Seems to be working.
Found the "computer management>system tool>event viewer>application. The
entries that were "error" "application hang" or "error" "mssql$pinnaclesys"
that were present each time boot failed either do not appear or, in case of
"mssql$ ..." is a warning, not error.
Shutdown was normal (except that every night since 2/27 or so there has been
a Windows Update).
Things that fix themselves for no apparent reason leave me very concerned.
Compaq Presario, 3 to 4 years old
Recently (last calendar week) boot and startup seemed slower than usual
(removed norton 360, installed mcaffee from comcast on or about 2/27)
Thursday 3/5 boot and startup hung before displaying toolbar. Able to access
only a few programs, NOT "START" on toolbar, NOT system restore. I was able
to find a diagnostic log (unable to repeat today) that seemed to indicate one
or more of several background programs were not able to complete opening.
Attempts 3/5, 3/6 also failed. Ran hard drive maintenance (spinrite) 3/7 and
3/8 (takes a long time).
Tonight (3/8), a little more of toolbar displayed, but "start" and any other
place on toolbar gives hourglass.
Alt|Cntrl|Del > will get task manager, and allows terminating non responsive
programs and shutdown.
Shutdown> turnoff attempts to end
{44c6fb81-kbdwindcls-b4f7-11d9fdd0800460222f0}, fails to end, reports program
as not responding, > select end now. Windows shuts down, turns off computer.
Rebooted again while working on this. Can't believe it. Seems to be working.
Found the "computer management>system tool>event viewer>application. The
entries that were "error" "application hang" or "error" "mssql$pinnaclesys"
that were present each time boot failed either do not appear or, in case of
"mssql$ ..." is a warning, not error.
Shutdown was normal (except that every night since 2/27 or so there has been
a Windows Update).
Things that fix themselves for no apparent reason leave me very concerned.