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Bootup will not finish

grandms
13 years ago

Having trouble with XP-SP3 desktop. Computer will start boot process---Windows welcome window, etc. and desktop wallpaper loads, then nothing further. No taskbar, no icons, so I really can't do anything. Shut down using power button and rebooted into Safe Mode. That works, so I then did a restore to yesterday which worked, but changed my desktop from classic view to XP, but that's minor. I took off the wallpaper and was finally able to reboot after doing all the MS updates. Even downloaded some e-mail. I decided to fix my display back to classic and also enlarge fonts from 96dpi to 120dpi, which required a restart. Same thing all over again. I watch the light for the HDD and see activity after the boot activity starts and even after the wallpaper comes up there is still some blinking of the yellow light. It comes to a stop and there it sits. I finally just shut down again by hitting the power button. Any ideas as to what might be causing this and how I can fix it?

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