Win 95 hangs on bootup. Only the Start button appears and the hourglass hangs indefinitely. Safe mode and booting from a floppy work fine. Bootlog.txt appears normal. All programs appear to work under safe mode and floppy boot.

No exact cause for that. Likely it's drivers or software loading on startup. You might install msconfig. It comes with 98 but not 95 and allows you to disable startup items. You can download it here: http://tweakedout.homestead.com/fil... You can unzip it to a floppy disk and then copy the files to the 95 machine. There's a .txt file that tells where to put the files. Then try disabling some of the startup items and see if it makes a difference.

Hi DAVEINCAPS, Good one, as usual. I might also look closer at bootlog. 98 makes a bootlog.txt and bootlog.prv and you can save a few to bootlog.1 .2 etc. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I tried msconfig and now the desktop icons appear but so does explorer which hangs with an hourglass and 0 files found. Explorer does work fine under safe mode. I tried unchecking all startup programs and bootup files. I even tried renaming explorer but windows will not load without it. Any ideas?

Yeah, it's not going to run without explorer. As M2 suggests bootlog.txt may still help. Bootup using the boot menu and choose that option--#2 I think Then reboot when it hangs. The end of bootlog.txt will tell you what it was doing when it hung. You must have already done something similar but I think it's only the last entries you need to look at. Also could you give more detail about the '0 files found' message? That's not something that would normally show.

The screen is a blank Explorer screen with no directories or files showing. On the bottom it says 0 objects 0 bytes free. It seems like Explorer is trying to load files but just hangs. For some reason the system will not create bootlog.txt. It was creating this file weeks ago and I compared it with an old file and it appeared to finish loading all drivers normally. The system appears to hang on the desktop display.

Check this previous thread and broni's link there in #3: http://computing.net/windows95/wwwb... I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're experiencing but it sounds close.