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More info?)
Thank you. I will try it, hopefully it will work. Thanks again.
"t.cruise" wrote:
> Try booting into Safe Mode (press the F8 key when powering on, but BEFORE the Windows XP
> logo appears). If the Windows XP logo appears, you have gone too far, and must start
> again. You might have to press the F8 key a few times, but not enough times to cause a
> keyboard error message. A menu will appear. Opt for Safe Mode from that menu. Safe Mode
> might seem to take long to load, or seem like your system is hanging, but be patient. You
> will finally get to the logon screen. Click on your profile. Just before the Safe Mode
> desktop loads, you will be asked if you want to proceed loading the Safe Mode desktop or
> go directly to System Restore. Opt for loading the Safe Mode desktop. After the desktop
> has loaded, right click the My Computer desktop icon, then left click on Properties. When
> the System Properties window opens click on the Advanced tab. Under the heading: Startup
> and Recovery click the Settings button. When the System Recovery window opens look for
> the heading System Failure, and click to REMOVE the checkmark in the box to the left of
> Restart. Then click the OK button at the bottom of the window. Then click the APPLY and
> OK buttons in the remaining window. Then exit windows. When you reboot your system,
> instead of restarting again and again, hopefully there will be an error message giving the
> details for whatever is causing the problem. Post the details of the error message, and
> hopefully there will be an easy fix. If you have recently installed a driver for a piece
> of hardware, or updated a driver, or have a corrupt driver, or have recently installed
> software (with or without your knowledge) that loads on startup, those things can be the
> cause, and easily remedied. But, there is not enough information yet. Hopefully the
> details of an error message will furnish that.
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> "Z3LDA" <Z3LDA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > I'm using Windows XP Home Edition and I have a slight problem. I start up my
> > PC and it shows the Windows XP loading screen and then it just restarts. I
> > got an article about it, but it says to use the CD but I dont have the CD.
> > I'm using Boot disks. Has any else had this problem or know to fix it? Thanks.
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