Re: Explorer fails to load properly when booting WinXP Pro

From: Darrell (nospam_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:42:26 -0800

Something that installs itself during bootup seems to be hanging up causing
items that would be loaded after it to also not work. You could click on
Start... Run... type msconfig OK... click on the Startup tab and uncheck
items you don't need on boot up. Perhaps one of those is the culprit. If
not, you could click on Start... Settings.... Task Bar and Start Menu. Click
on the Start Menu tab, click on Customize, Advanced, expand the Programs
folder, and click on the Start Up folder to see what's in it. Delete any
items you think you don't need on boot up. As is any "fix" write down what
you do.

Another option would be to reboot, hitting F8 early in the boot to get the
startup option menu. Choose the step by step boot and try to determine
which item is hanging up and either reinstall it or remove it from the
Startup in Msconfig.

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"James Peteln" <j_peteln@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5fce01c40118$d8d3f970$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi folks,
> My Windows XP Pro is always 100% up to date with the
> Windows Update patches, my Norton AntiVirus definitions
> are always 100% up to date and I run ZoneAlarm Pro
> firewall. Suddenly Windows won't finish booting. I get
> my wallpaper and the taskbar, Start button and clock are
> all there, but the QuickLaunch area is just a darker blue
> rectangle and I get nothing in my system tray except the
> clock. At this point it seems to hang - no further
> progress however long I leave it. Over the wallpaper, I
> have a mouse pointer but, if I move it over the taskbar,
> it becomes an eggtimer. Ctrl-Alt-Del starts Task
> Manager. CPU usage 1% or thereabouts. I kill
> Explorer.exe and then restart it, at which point
> everything is hunky dory except that the things (such as
> Norton AntiVirus, ZoneAlarm and the things in Startup)
> which normally run or start automatically on startup, have
> to be started manually, one by one. I ran a Blaster
> removal tool, but no evidence of Blaster was found. A
> full scan using Norton AntiVirus finds nothing at all.
> Any ideas anybody? Thanks, James