Summary: My start up hangs up for about 35 seconds at the Welcome Screen. I have exhausted everything I know to figure out what would cause this. Msconfig ha...
Summary: I'm posting for a friend that has quite a problem. Windows Media Player attempted an auto-update and locked the system up. After a forced shut down XP...
Summary: After imaging XP with Rapid Deploy, I put the image back (wanted bigger partition). XP starts ok but hangs at the blue Welcome screen. I should see Lo...
Summary: Help! I did something really stupid to my computer and now I cant bootup! I was updating windows xp to sp2 while i tried to launch a multiplayer game...
Summary: "You Had Me At Hello" Lately I've noticed my computer freezing up at the welcome screen (blue). I ran Check Disk, but before I could read the full re...
Summary: tried to remove gravis joystick driver - system crashed and now when booting it hangs on welcome screen. Cant use keyboard or mouse. Loading in safe...
Summary: When I attempt to log on at welcome screen, there is no cursor to typr password. I have to reboot to get a cursor to log in with password. What is w...
Summary: On nine boots out of ten my PC will hang as soon as it gets past the Welcome screen and at Windows Explorer. My drive is a 360gig partitioned in 3 an...
Summary: Hey guys, I have yet another startup issue with XP. I know that I need a memory upgrade, but I really dont think that is the problem in this case, be...
Summary: Hi guys, I hope you can help me here. I have been messing around with my partitions and stuff lately (see link below for details) and royally screwed ...
Summary: Hey people, I got this problem here: Whenever I boot up my computer, it stalls at the screen that says Welcome, it has this purple background and stu...
Summary: At the welcome screen, there is a dialog box with "Yes" and "No" buttons, but no information in the actual window. I cannot enter windows until I cli...
Summary: My Dell Precision 370 with Windows XP Professional hangs at the Windows splash screen when booting up. However, if I add the "/sos" switch to the boo...
Summary: My computer feezes at the welcome screen during windows start up. Ive tried reinstalling windows using the recovery disc and I think this reformats th...
Summary: hi all :) i have win XP home installed on my new laptop. (which came with the laptop). about every 1 - 2 months of a fresh install it just stops booti...
Summary: My IBM laptop worked fine - until trying to upgrade (clean install) to XP ... same problem, hangs at initial splash screen- now I can't get any os bac...
Summary: Hi Wayne The Administrator will show at the welcome screen, until you create a second user, and make him part of the admin group too. Then the user ad...
Summary: I had the same problem. It may be that the computer is not really "hung up" and you could leave it at that screen for about two hours and you may be p...
Summary: When booting my pc it hangs at the xp splash screen. The scrolling blue bar actually stops scrolling. Then I tried booting it in safe mode and it st...
Summary: Ok, this problem is driving me nuts - I hope someone can help! My exact system is as follows: Amd 2000+ XP CPU with official heatsink/fan 512Mb PC133...
Summary: WHn my system boots it seems to pause for a long time at the welcome screen, if i ctrl-alt-del, thenit goes straight in. any idea's thanks ...
Summary: Okay, I just moved back home from school, set up my computer, and booted up. When I got to the welcome screen, everything seemed to be working fine. ...
Summary: Grey box without text in it, only shows YES or NO with a big red X at the WELCOME Screen during the boot up process. It doesn't matter what you choos...
Summary: I made no config changes before this, but Windows Update did download and install an update that did not sound harmful, but I can't remember what it w...
Summary: I recently installed a floppy drive in my pc, but i removed it after i didn't need it any more. I configured this hardware change in the bios. But at ...
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