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Friday night I got "frozen" out of the MSN gaming zone. My desktop was
completely locked. No access to the task manager, unable to shut down. The
boot literally paralyzed my system. Upon reboot the usual "bad shutdown
previously" that I expected to so did not happen. The system went through
the post quite happily. The "Welcome" screen came up. I logged in with my
password and got the appropriate "please wait... loading personal settings"
and there it sits forevermore. Somehow in that incident it seems the
personal settings have lost their way. And I am unable to proceed from that
"Please wait...">
I have gone in in "safe mode" and tried restoring to last good configuration
but that made no difference (probably because the OS boots quite happily).
I then tried "system restore" to two days previously but same response. I
remain "please wait...".
Does anyone have any suggestions or understanding of how I can retrieve my
personal settings and steer XP (Pro) in the right direction?
I also tried logging in as one of the other users on my computer but same
thing. It just hangs under "loading personal settings"...
Interestingly I am not the only one with this type of problem after Friday.
Spoke to one of the +'s. She can't boot up her system at all since being
booted Friday.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
completely locked. No access to the task manager, unable to shut down. The
boot literally paralyzed my system. Upon reboot the usual "bad shutdown
previously" that I expected to so did not happen. The system went through
the post quite happily. The "Welcome" screen came up. I logged in with my
password and got the appropriate "please wait... loading personal settings"
and there it sits forevermore. Somehow in that incident it seems the
personal settings have lost their way. And I am unable to proceed from that
"Please wait...">
I have gone in in "safe mode" and tried restoring to last good configuration
but that made no difference (probably because the OS boots quite happily).
I then tried "system restore" to two days previously but same response. I
remain "please wait...".
Does anyone have any suggestions or understanding of how I can retrieve my
personal settings and steer XP (Pro) in the right direction?
I also tried logging in as one of the other users on my computer but same
thing. It just hangs under "loading personal settings"...
Interestingly I am not the only one with this type of problem after Friday.
Spoke to one of the +'s. She can't boot up her system at all since being
booted Friday.
Thanks in advance for any advice.