XP home hangs at start; wont load windows ... Try resetting the jumper on your motherboard for the ... cmos settings as well as removing the battery.... >that went fine and I reinstalled windows sp1.... >you don't need to greatly improve bootup time.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
XP home hangs at start; wont load windows ... I recently did a refresh install of windows xp home ... you don't need to greatly improve bootup time.... I tried to do another refresh install of XP. ... it hangs again. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
Re: Switch ON the PC! ... I want to wake up and find my PC ON rather than to wait couple ... of minutes for the windows to start! ... You might try enabling Hibernation in the power options and hibernating ... instead (really reduces bootup time, since you're just loading a saved RAM ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)