My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

[Guest Saara]

Instead, it gives me this message:

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.

A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

 

Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a

virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

[Guest Chris Partridge]

RE: My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

 

 

Try the following:

 

When you start the computer, press the F8 key. This will bring up a menu and

select the one that says "Last Known Successfull Load.." or something like

that. That should get you back to the desktop hopefully.

 

"Saara" wrote:

> Instead, it gives me this message:

> "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.

> A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

>

> Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a

> virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

 

 

"Saara" <Saara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:B1D67F52-5513-499A-B4A6-77B6C804E800@microsoft.com...

> Instead, it gives me this message:

> "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start

> successfully.

> A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

>

> Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a

> virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

>

 

Can you start it in Safe Mode?

[Guest Saara]

RE: My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

 

I would try the F8 thing, but when my PC brings me to that menu, none of the

options work.

 

"Saara" wrote:

> Instead, it gives me this message:

> "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.

> A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

>

> Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a

> virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

>

[Guest hvcool]

RE: My PC Won't Start After I Turn It On...

 

I tried everything but what worked for me was F8 start safemode with command

prompt n run a chkdsk /F restart at reboot YES :) might work majority of the

time :)

 

"Saara" wrote:

> I would try the F8 thing, but when my PC brings me to that menu, none of the

> options work.

>

> "Saara" wrote:

>

> > Instead, it gives me this message:

> > "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.

> > A recent hardware or software change might have caused this..."

> >

> > Does anyone know what this is and what I can do? My family thinks it's a

> > virus but I'm not quite sure about that.

> >