RE: XP Home locks up during log on

Can you boot to Safe mode? F8 key during boot up process.

"Ka Khiong Kwok" wrote:

> Hi Ladies and gents, hopefully someone can point me ni the right direction
> as this isn't the first time I've seen this and I haven't had much luck
> googling.
>
> Anyway, the problem is specifically with Windows XP Home and users logging
> on. They click on their user, the OS beging to boot and get to the bare
> desktop but no further.
>
> O/S seems to have hung like a donkey.
>
> Anyway, pointers:
> 1) There's no icons on screen, you just see the desk top background.
> 2) There's no active apps, but a heck of a lot of processes. None of which
> seem to be out of the ordinary
> 3) The system is running on cable - common theme. The smoking gun. I think
> the comp got jacked, however there's barely a chalk outline to prove this.
> 4) Norton AV - another common theme.
> 5) In the cases I've seen, they've also ran spybot prior to the system
> keeling over
>
> Can't think of any more at this stage, have only five ours sleeps last
> night.
>
> Originally, I thought it was a screwed up profile. I got into the system and
> created a new profile, log out and back in as the new profile and it still
> happened.
>
> The other theory I've got is just a stick of dodgy RAM.
>
> I've made a note in my log to check this if it happens again.
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ka Kwok
>
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