Re: Vista starts in Safe Mode all the time

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Lene,

We seem to have the exact same problems, the only different may be that
you are using a desktop while I'm running a Dell Vista laptop.
The problem seemed to have began right after we System Restored after
the first auto restart. Futhermore, the problem seemed permanate when we
ran "msconfig". (Shouldn't run msconfig by following a site guide)
Because of the System Restore the "msconfig" runs itself on Safe Mode
mainly because you probably check "Normal Setup" following the
restore.
Normal Setup after the restore takes you to the original settings which
runs only basic the devices and drivers. This will not run other
installed programs that aren't mandatory to run Windows Vista, thus it
being in Safe Mode.

The only solution to this problem is a Windows Reinstallation
and remember not to follow a site guide to MSCONFIG without
credentials.

sites like "dell tech support"
or your branded computer support center:o


"Lene" <Lene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there

I've searched the net fro info about this but I just don't get
any
wiser.

Here's the story.
Installed a HP photosmart 516 (so that you can print out
photos). All
worked
fine eventhough it wasn't "certified" for Vista. I printed
pictures
and so on
- worked normally on it with office programs and windows mail.
I went
away
from it for a couple of days (it goes into standby - and my
husband
told me
that one night he woke up because it started by itself and
then it
shut
down??!!) Coming back and restarting the desktop made it
almost
freeze BEFORE
even running the BIOS. I thought that there was something
wrong with
the BIOS
and have even looked for updates at HP's webpages. But it's
not
that.....after about 15 min it starts as always no problems.
Of course I got annyoed with this one evening so I went into
Safe
Mode to
see if there was any difference in doing that....Being in
there I
decided to
make a "System Restore" to see if that could help. So that's
what I
did.
After this it only starts in Safe Mode!!!
But it doesn't wait for 15 min before loading the BIOS or
whatever
it's
working with...
I have been trying to System Restore even further back....no
changes.
Then I went into msconfig and tried a few things that I read
on the
net.
Still the same.
I brought it with me to my work where we are 3 that works with
IT in
hope
that 3 pair of eyes may see more than one pair.
And we came up with making a new user with admin rights and
then
changing
again in msconfig to not make "Safe Boot" (this underneath
"Boot").
Then it
can start the right way BUT then it doesn't allow some
programs to
startup??!!
OKay we then took away the programs from the startup folder.
Still
the same
problem because then it was msconfig that was the new problem
....not
being
permitted to run in startup (wherever that came from??)
Everytime we go into msconfig and choose the option that we
want
windows run
normally then it by itself marks that it should start in Safe
Mode
(under
"Boot")?
Even when chooseing from F8 that it should start normally - it
starts
in
Safe Mode.
I'm getting grey hairs and loseing hair too from this -
because we
have
absolutely no idea how to stop it from misbehaving. ---- Sure
--- we
could
reinstall it and I could make a back up of all the
files.....but
then I
still wouldn't know what the problem was or whether it will
suddenly
happen
again -- beside that I've had it for so little time that I
haven't
made
"discovery disk's" yet... --- clever me ;-)

Are there anybody out there that have heard about anything
like this
or
there might have a brilliant idea???
Thanks in advance & Wishing you all a nice day :-)
--
LSH


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