Vista Hangs at welcome screen

[Ervinr82]

For the last couple days I have been having a weird problem, When logging in
after i have typed my PW my laptop will just hang at the "welcome" screen
with the waiting icon, it seems like the computer is doing fine, It just
hangs for sometimes ever and sometime 2-10 minutes. I am on the verge of
just re-installing. Please help me out, if you need any additional info
please let me know.

 

[Ervinr82]

Hi Ervinr82,

It may be a startup program causing this. Test to see by booting into
Safe Mode. This tutorial will show you how if needed. Just select "Safe
Mode".

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88009-advanced-boot-options.html


If it boots into Safe Mode without any problems, then it is a startup
program. You can then just Disable a startup program and keep testing
until you find the bad one, and Remove it. You can then Enable the
other back. Method One will show you how in this tutorial.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html


If all else fails, you can try doing a Repair install before having to
do a clean install. This will allow you to repair your Vista
installation without losing your files, settings, and programs.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html

Shawn


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Thanks alot for the help, it looks like alot of this could solve my problem,
I have tried to boot in safe mode, and it does like a charm, so i believe
your right. im just going to disable everything that isnt system required,
and go from there.

One other thing you might be able to help with, the repair install.. I have
a HP that i bought over the internet, and they didnt give me a disc, how do i
go about this?

thanks again for the info, and ill update if it works.

 

[Ervinr82]

Thanks alot, Well i found the problem, it was a service, 30 or so reboots
later, it was windows event log, do you have any idea why this would be
causeing me trouble? and how to remedy this? let me know! for the mean time,
i just disabled it, and it boots up like normal again. i apologize for the
slow response time, but im currently deployed to afghan ad it makes it tough
to get good interent connections. thanks again

-rob

 

[Ervinr82]

K thanks ill check this out. Thanks for all your help.