Hi.
Vista would not boot up completely. It got to that part with the green, scrolling bar animation, and just hung there for like five minutes. I cut the power, waited a a minute, and then powered back up. Windows detected that the boot failed, and asked if I wanted to run some type of diagnostic(the name of which I cannot remember), or boot regularly. I chose to run the diagnostic. It started to do some type of scan and then a pop up asks me if I would like to use system restore. I chose to do this. However, it did not reboot immediately, but rather seemed to continue with the scan it was doing. I can't remember much of it. Then it finished what it was doing and I think it said it would restore the system, and if it failed to boot up, the same utility would automatically come up again. I think I clicked finish, and it rebooted without a problem. So I guess that means problem solved, right? I am curious what happened though. I can't think of any new program that would have screwed anything up. I have had several good startups since I last installed a new program. I didn't make any settings changes either. The computer has always taken some time to boot up, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. What do you think was the cause of this?
Since system restore fixed it, I guess it must have been something with the registry. But I don't understand how the registry got screwed up. I just finished a virus scan, and that came out clean. I am going to run some spyware scans, and scan disk too. I will also defrag the hard drive. But that's all I can think of. So what could have went wrong?

Athlon 64 X2 4400
1024MB of RAM
250GB HD
Nvidia 6150

hi Meditation
The mind boggles... its best to
have some form of back-up restore concerning
a system you can not trust or lack of info as to why something happens or not.

I made a movie DVD in Vista it closed the
Disc blue screened and that was that.
"0xc000000f NLS data missing or corrupt"
Tried everything in the book but just ended up with that on a black screen on boot
up.
lucky enough I had a restore program
loaded which I now trust with Vista.

... sorry not much help

ps the DVD movie played fine