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Windows 7 starting windows hang

spr1te

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My computer gets stuck on the "starting windows" screen when booting. It was working fine before that and I haven't changed anything at all. I had left my computer on overnight, found it had frozen, rebooted and then the 'starting windows' screen now hangs. I can get into safe mode.

Could the latest automatic windows update have caused this? Im hoping its not a hardware issue.
 
Actually I just got into "installed updates" in control panel and the last security update for Windows 7 was on 29/07/2011 so it can't have been an update that caused it. Now I have no idea.
 

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