Hi,

I have an IBM thinkpad with Windows XP Service Pac 2 on it. A few
days back, I removed some of the programs from the startup using
start->run->msconfig, but after that when i restarted my computer, I
got an initialization error.. dont quite remember the name of the
file that failed to initialize, but my computer would work fine. I
finally managed to remove some messengers and other programs from
loading on startup by start->run->regedit which gave the desired
result. But every time I restarted my computer, from then on, that
error (initialization error) would pop up but session wud run ok.

Today morning I couldnot boot my pc the normal way and had to make a
safe boot. When i tried booting the normal way it shows the startup
screen and it just continues showing that way.

Please help. could it be a virus or some hard disk problem or that
initialization error that is making this happen..

regards
Rajesh

Rajesh Sharma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an IBM thinkpad with Windows XP Service Pac 2 on it. A few
> days back, I removed some of the programs from the startup using
> start->run->msconfig, but after that when i restarted my computer, I
> got an initialization error.. dont quite remember the name of the
> file that failed to initialize, but my computer would work fine. I
> finally managed to remove some messengers and other programs from
> loading on startup by start->run->regedit which gave the desired
> result. But every time I restarted my computer, from then on, that
> error (initialization error) would pop up but session wud run ok.
>
> Today morning I couldnot boot my pc the normal way and had to make a
> safe boot. When i tried booting the normal way it shows the startup
> screen and it just continues showing that way.
>
> Please help. could it be a virus or some hard disk problem or that
> initialization error that is making this happen..
>
> regards
> Rajesh

Did you try booting from the option of last known good configuration?

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