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Hello to all. I have an older Dimension 4100 among my Dell PC's that my 12
year old daughter has been using and I am having serious trouble now. I was
attempting to clean up all of the spyware and adware that she accumulated
and now I can't get Win XP to complete loading. The PC starts to boot, stays
on the Dell splash screen for a REALLY LONG while and then goes to the XP
loading screen. XP appears to be loading. After that, the screen goes blank,
as it always did, the cursor pointer appears in the center of the screen,
and there it stays. The screen is black, no desktop, no Windows. It won't
complete the load to Windows.
I guess I must have fouled up something, but for the life of me I don't know
what. I was attempting to get into safe mode by pressing F8 when this
problem started. I had just finished deleting "lsass.exe" and wanted to make
sure I cleaned the registry. The mouse is functional but the keyboard
responds only to "Esc".
Dell Tech support seems to think it's hard drive failure and coincidental to
my tinkering. I tried booting from the XP CD, but it gets to the same spot
and hangs. I ran the HDD diagnostic "Ctrl-Alt-D" and the drive passed...?
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I have a 12 yr old daughter ready to
shoot me for frying her PC.
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions and best regards,
Morey G
D4100 P3 933 Win XP Home
384MB RAM 20Gb HDD
CDRW
DVD ROM
Hello to all. I have an older Dimension 4100 among my Dell PC's that my 12
year old daughter has been using and I am having serious trouble now. I was
attempting to clean up all of the spyware and adware that she accumulated
and now I can't get Win XP to complete loading. The PC starts to boot, stays
on the Dell splash screen for a REALLY LONG while and then goes to the XP
loading screen. XP appears to be loading. After that, the screen goes blank,
as it always did, the cursor pointer appears in the center of the screen,
and there it stays. The screen is black, no desktop, no Windows. It won't
complete the load to Windows.
I guess I must have fouled up something, but for the life of me I don't know
what. I was attempting to get into safe mode by pressing F8 when this
problem started. I had just finished deleting "lsass.exe" and wanted to make
sure I cleaned the registry. The mouse is functional but the keyboard
responds only to "Esc".
Dell Tech support seems to think it's hard drive failure and coincidental to
my tinkering. I tried booting from the XP CD, but it gets to the same spot
and hangs. I ran the HDD diagnostic "Ctrl-Alt-D" and the drive passed...?
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I have a 12 yr old daughter ready to
shoot me for frying her PC.
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions and best regards,
Morey G
D4100 P3 933 Win XP Home
384MB RAM 20Gb HDD
CDRW
DVD ROM