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StarryNight986
I have two computers running XP sp 3 that do not boot consistently. The Dell
machine (2 mb ram) sometimes will load all the items in the startup and work
great, but other times it will only load some of the items (and the others
are missing from the taskbar). It will appear to work, but you cannot run
IE, or the other programs that did not load. When you click on them, it just
does nothing. I have run chkdsk, and I have gone through msconfig with each
item to only load the things I need.
Also, when I try to shutdown the computer when it starts up wrong, the
system gets hung on "saving system settings" and then I have to manually shut
it down.
I think all of this started when I tried to install IE8 on this computer, it
did not work properly, and then I had to back off to IE6/7.
I do a checkpoint on the system everytime I make any changes or when it is
working okay. Sometimes now the only way I can get it to boot up properly it
to press F8 at startup, last good configuration, and then hope that it will
work.
Any ideas of what I can look for would be helpful. I am running McAfee
Virus/Firewall protection.
My other computer is an Acer netbook which is experiencing similar
problems...Thanks.
machine (2 mb ram) sometimes will load all the items in the startup and work
great, but other times it will only load some of the items (and the others
are missing from the taskbar). It will appear to work, but you cannot run
IE, or the other programs that did not load. When you click on them, it just
does nothing. I have run chkdsk, and I have gone through msconfig with each
item to only load the things I need.
Also, when I try to shutdown the computer when it starts up wrong, the
system gets hung on "saving system settings" and then I have to manually shut
it down.
I think all of this started when I tried to install IE8 on this computer, it
did not work properly, and then I had to back off to IE6/7.
I do a checkpoint on the system everytime I make any changes or when it is
working okay. Sometimes now the only way I can get it to boot up properly it
to press F8 at startup, last good configuration, and then hope that it will
work.
Any ideas of what I can look for would be helpful. I am running McAfee
Virus/Firewall protection.
My other computer is an Acer netbook which is experiencing similar
problems...Thanks.