PC Hangs at Start Up

[Guest]

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Help! I operate with Windows XP Home edition, recently had problems with
viruses even tho I have Macafee & Norton. "Bloodhound 32" was quoted by
Norton. However all seemed ok but when I now try & start up pc, it hangs just
after welcome screen, pc is non responsive to any commands, no applications
or desktop loaded. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
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Pebo

 

[peter]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

Try scanning in Safe Mode (tapping F8 while PC boots up) and if necessary
you may have to disable System Restore by right-clicking "My Computer" go to
the system restore tab and "Turn off System Restore on all drives" then scan
again.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR.
"Pebo" <Pebo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37CA6B2E-B467-4318-BDDA-C1F18E2C4505@microsoft.com...
> Help! I operate with Windows XP Home edition, recently had problems with
> viruses even tho I have Macafee & Norton. "Bloodhound 32" was quoted by
> Norton. However all seemed ok but when I now try & start up pc, it hangs
> just
> after welcome screen, pc is non responsive to any commands, no
> applications
> or desktop loaded. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
> --
> Pebo