Re: Blank Welcome Screen in Windows XP Pro

Martin wrote:

Thanks for the info. Bart's PE looks promising and I'll give it a
whirl. I'm fairly adept with digging into system problems but I also
know how much time it takes to fix these things.

The only item that looked like it might describe my situation in
Kelly's Korner is the one near the end about "Windows XP stops
responding at the welcome screen". I'll see if there is an option to
delete the restoration data when I boot up into "Safe Mode".

If all else fails I do have a ghost image of the E drive. The image
is a year old though, and although I haven't installed much on that
system in the last year, I don't want to revert back to it just yet.

I will follow your advice on anti-virus protection but it does get
expensive since I also have two other daughters with laptops at
university. I need a group rate!

Then look into using F-Prot, which is what I use on my (numerous!)
Windows machines. It's $30/year and you can put it on 5 computers. For
corporate use, $50/year will let you install on 10 workstations.

Malke
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