[Solved] Windows 7 Hangs after login, stays on welcome screen

Hey, Need Help Pls!

Just bought and installed windows 7 pro. I downloaded it from/ got student discount wont have the DVD disk unitl it gets shipped in. Anyways, after having it installed a few days (no problems), powercord accidently gets pulled while PC is on. I turn PC back on and after I type my password and hit enter my PC stays at the welcome screen with the circle moving. HDD activity lite stays on. What can I do to fix this?
System Specs:
ASUS Mobo M479 T Deluxe AM2
AMD 9950 quad core @ 2.6 Ghz
4 gb Corsair DDr2 800 Mhz
500 GB WD HDD
ATI 4850 Video Card

sounds like you need to try to download/get your hands on a Windows recovery disk...
your Student discount download could have been made into an image file.. to then burn on a DVD.

Did you try and see if you can start it in safemode?

wow
good luck in the future
hope this doesn't happen again

Did you wait to see if windows did anything....... or did it just freeze? I waited several mins and finally an error came up. My problem was easy to fix.

which update exactly?
try copying is KBN number and searching for that
"Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB975364)"
is the update that i have for 10/27
if you don't use IE, (if you use Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, ect) then i wouldn't worry about it, and just hide the update. Maybe MS will fix the problem with a future patch.

strange that DEP or windows defender would cause such an error...
but if it works...

Wanted to let you know that I have worked around this hang by booting with boot logging on. Hit F8 during boot and choose the boot logging option from the menu. Avoids the hang for me.

Have you confirmed that the problem is with KB975364? Have you tried deinstalling it to see if that resolves your problem? If so, I think I'll try deinstalling it as well.

To see the relevant posting on the microsoft.com TechNet forums, please visit http://social.technet.microsoft.co [...] f=required

I gave it a shot and it worked! Thanks for the tip . I had no new drivers or software installation - also no loss of power or other abnormal shut-down. The only thing that changed was the network connection because I moved the computer.

Hmmm. So basically, if you can boot up windows 7, but can't login, you need to disable drivers you recently installed.
But the thing is, the driver which caused win7 to stop working was one that had not been updated or installed recently.
Admittedly, the device driver started to cause win7 to crash after one of microsoft's update :S

I had this issue recently after I noticed one of my hard drives making an odd noise as it mounted and unmounted itself. I thought there could be a faulty cable or connection, so I Shut Down the computer to investigate. Once I reboot, I ran into this issue. I should note that the system tried to check the drive in question, and after an extremely brief attempt, the computer started.

Here's what I did to fix this issue:

1) Downloaded a copy of my Operating System (Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit)

2) Booted the computer up with the disc in the machine, and booted from disc

3) Clicked "Repair this computer" (or whatever it says after the main splash screen)

4) Selected the Operating System I wanted to repair and clicked "Next"

5) Chose the "Command Prompt" option from the list

---Here's where some people might have got lost---

---You should see something like "X:\Sources"---

6) Typed "cd .." until I was in the root "X:\" directory

---The repair utility had renamed my operating system's disk drive letter, so yours may not be "C:\", as my drive wasn't---

7) Typed different drive letters in until I found the right one (You should see folders like Program Files, Windows, Users, etc once you've found the right hard disk)

a) For example, "E:", "G:", "I:" and check each one to see the content by typing "dir"... also, be careful not to include the back-slash after the colon... I don't know why, but this utility doesn't like it when you include that, so make sure you're only typing in the drive letter followed by a colon

b) My drive letter the first time I went in here was G, and then it was H the second time, so I typed "H:"

---I think people who've tried chkdsk /r in the past may have done so when they were located in the "X:\Sources" directory, and their disk check would have rendered no useful result---

---One of my first attempts left me stumped because I couldn't navigate correctly using the commands I was familiar with, so pay attention to how you're asking it do things---

---This recovery program renames the system's drive letter, you have to make sure you're in that directory to run the check disk program---

8) I typed "chkdsk /r" and the system began checking the disk

9) It asked me if I wanted to unmount the drive, I typed "Y" and hit enter to continue

10) Typed "exit" and restarted the computer



That's all I had to do and my issue with the forever "Welcome" loop was fixed. My system did start once while in this viciously annoying cycle, and it when it did, I also encountered the issue with nothing really working/running correctly.



I hope this helps someone else, as it was really simple once I figured it out. I'm sure there are more complicated versions of this bug, but if you're just starting out, try what I did and you may be as lucky as I was with the easy fix.

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