XP Stalling after logging in

[Andy]

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Hi there everyone.

I'm currently trying to help my friend with her Toshiba laptop. It's a
'Tecra S2' for what it's worth, running XP.

Basically, upon logging in XP loads as normal, brings up the
desktop/task bar etc, and then....

Nothing.

The mouse pointer still moves, but no clicks (left OR right) are
recognised.

No keystrokes seem to be recognised either. Ctrl-Alt-Delete does
nothing.

Now, I've tried booting in safe mode and this produces a somewhat usable
system. I can run msconfig.exe and have attempted rebooting after
disabling all startup items. This seems to have no effect on the
problem though.

This problem affects *both* user accounts, and the machine is
essentially unusable.

Attempting to boot using 'Last Known Good Configuration' has no effect
either.

If it's of any use, the last task completed on this machine was the
importing of a couple of albums worth of music into iTunes, which it did
without any troubles.

Now, I haven't had a great deal to do with Windows previously, so I'm
wondering:

Is there anything in the way of a Disk repair/diagnostic utility as part
of the OS, eg the Windows equivalent of something like 'fsck' in unix?

What other options should I try with msconfig?

FWIW, I'm happy enough running stuff from the command line too.

ANY help is appreciated with this one, I've really got no idea how both
user accounts could be ruined by simply rebooting.

Cheers,
Andy.

 

[~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:.]

This could be spyware related as well. Could also be a virus. Have you
tried to do a repair install with the XP CD?

 

[Malke]

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Malke

 

[mikeyhsd]

boy what a SNOTTY holier than thou attitude.

typical.

must be pms kicking in again.







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[RA]

boy what a SNOTTY holier than thou attitude.

typical.

must be pms kicking in again.



The only snotty attitude is yours. What is your excuse, puberty kicking in?

 

[xxx_]

1. Boot into Safe Mode With networking
2. Download Avast Anti-virus Free or buy the Professional Edition
3. Run a full system scan with Avast. It may request to do a boot time scan
so let it do so.
4. Purchase or download an anti-spyware program (eg. AVG Anti-spyware) and
run a full system scan with the anti-spyware program.
5. Reboot the computer normally and see if the problem continues.

 

[FrankFL]

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Cheers,
Andy.

FWIW
Use the msnews.microsoft.com Server. This is a very high traffic newsgroup,
so I would suggest that you do not limit your download headers at a time.
I don't know where this setting is located in newswatcher OS X.

good luck