Windows XP Boot Problem

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You can tear your hair out.

-Winux P.

"Phyllis" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I turn on the computer it will boot up to the point that is says that
> windows is loading and then it just sits there. After a while, I can hit
> the space bar and it will go ahead to the welcome screen and finish
> booting up. Whether the space bar has anything to do with it finishing
> booting up or not I don't know. It could be that I just get impatient at
> about the same time every time and it might boot up anyway. My question
> is, what do I need to do to make it boot up as it should? As to further
> info, I have just cleaned this machine of many viruses, trojans, and
> spyware for a friend. The boot up behaved this way before the cleaning and
> is still behaving this way. As to what I have done today, I installed EZ
> Armour firewall and anti-virus, which needless to say, it did not have
> any. I then ran stinger (both normal and safe mode), CW shredder, Trend
> Micro House call virus scan, McAfee anti-virus and security online scan,
> Adaware, EZ Armour scan numerous times (both normal and safe mode). It
> has finally come up clean, I then ran chkdsk and defrag. I have disabled
> all items on start up tab in msconfig, rebooted, and disconnected internet
> connection and disconnected all peripherals. I am now in the process of
> installing SP2 from the CD and then I am going to download all Windows
> Updates. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks in advance for your
> help.
>

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I have already done that. The XP SP2 seems to have fixed the problem.
Thanks

"Winux P" <winuxp@msnews.grp> wrote in message
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>
> You can tear your hair out.
>
> -Winux P.
>
> "Phyllis" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news Yd2KKGeFHA.1288@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> When I turn on the computer it will boot up to the point that is says
>> that windows is loading and then it just sits there. After a while, I
>> can hit the space bar and it will go ahead to the welcome screen and
>> finish booting up. Whether the space bar has anything to do with it
>> finishing booting up or not I don't know. It could be that I just get
>> impatient at about the same time every time and it might boot up anyway.
>> My question is, what do I need to do to make it boot up as it should? As
>> to further info, I have just cleaned this machine of many viruses,
>> trojans, and spyware for a friend. The boot up behaved this way before
>> the cleaning and is still behaving this way. As to what I have done
>> today, I installed EZ Armour firewall and anti-virus, which needless to
>> say, it did not have any. I then ran stinger (both normal and safe
>> mode), CW shredder, Trend Micro House call virus scan, McAfee anti-virus
>> and security online scan, Adaware, EZ Armour scan numerous times (both
>> normal and safe mode). It has finally come up clean, I then ran chkdsk
>> and defrag. I have disabled all items on start up tab in msconfig,
>> rebooted, and disconnected internet connection and disconnected all
>> peripherals. I am now in the process of installing SP2 from the CD and
>> then I am going to download all Windows Updates. Is there anything else
>> I need to do? Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>
>