Re: After my previous post about SP2 - major complication now



On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:01:48 +0100, "Lynn W"
<lynn.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My laptop has been stable for about a week, used it at teatime and closed
>down as normally but now it won't boot up at all. Usually after a failure
>earlier when I then chose to restart Windows normally it then started up but
>tonight it won't. I have tried both Start Windows normally and Start with
>last know good configuration neither works. When I first boot I can see the
>hard disc is 'working' then the Wireless card lights up so it's obviously
>doing something with that and then I get nothing else just the Windows XP
>screen with the blue bar going round and round. It also mentions starting
>with Safe Mode, Safe mode with networking or Safe Mode with command prompt
>but have never used any of these and didn't know which was best to us. Want
>to be able to boot up and then remove SP2 (which was when my problems
>started) and see if everything was hopefully back to normal. Can anyone
>help please.

Start in safe mode.Log on as administrator and remove sp2. It will ask
for a password.If you don't know it,leave blank and press enter.If
that does not work,log on to your account.Or in safe mode,restart the
computer and see if it starts normally.
.



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