Glad to hear all is well, Gareth.

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"Gareth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Hi Kelly, I ended up pressing the F10 key 'system
restore' and re-installed Windows XP. Everything is
okay. No files lost. :-), Thanks for your help anyway.
Gareth
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>Suggestions:
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>How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
>How to Use Clean Boot Troubleshooting for Windows XP
>How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in
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>How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents
Windows XP from
>Starting
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-
us;q307545
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>How to Disable a Service that Prevents Windows XP from
Booting
>http://support.microsoft.com/support...icles/q244/9/0
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>Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against
Being Unable to
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>All the Best,
>Kelly
>
>Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
>2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>
>Troubleshooting Windows XP
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
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>Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
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>"Gareth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>> Hi, When my son turns his pc on, it goes through the
>> motions on the first page [black background with lg XP
in
>> the middle and the green line scaning from left to
>> right], then it switches to the blue background and the
>> XP in the middle. But, it then just freezes before you
>> get to the login page where you type your password.
Any
>> offers please? MTIA, Gareth, UK.
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