Guest MedRxMan Posted August 9, 2008 Posted August 9, 2008 Friend has pc with XP Home. Was fine 4 days ago but now only boots to safe mode. Ni restore points available except 4 years ago. Where should I start? TIA
Guest philo Posted August 9, 2008 Posted August 9, 2008 Re: Stuck in Safe Mode "MedRxMan" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ucC07qj%23IHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Friend has pc with XP Home. Was fine 4 days ago but now only boots to safe > mode. > > Ni restore points available except 4 years ago. > > Where should I start? > > TIA > > Try running msconfig and take everything out of startup then see if the machine boots up normally. If it works, then put at least your virus checker back into startup
Guest db.·.. > Posted August 9, 2008 Posted August 9, 2008 Re: Stuck in Safe Mode run msconfig and see the tab pertaining to the boot sometimes, safemode is enabled there. there is also a option to check all boot paths. -- db·´¯`·...¸><)))º> "MedRxMan" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ucC07qj%23IHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Friend has pc with XP Home. Was fine 4 days ago but now only boots to safe mode. > > Ni restore points available except 4 years ago. > > Where should I start? > > TIA >
Guest MedRxMan Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Re: Stuck in Safe Mode Sorry, the PC in use is Windows ME "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:OEOw8Ck%23IHA.4196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > "MedRxMan" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:ucC07qj%23IHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Friend has pc with XP Home. Was fine 4 days ago but now only boots to >> safe >> mode. >> >> Ni restore points available except 4 years ago. >> >> Where should I start? >> >> TIA >> >> > > > > Try running msconfig > and take everything out of startup > > then see if the machine boots up normally. > > If it works, then put at least your virus checker back into startup > >
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted August 11, 2008 Posted August 11, 2008 Re: Stuck in Safe Mode "MedRxMan" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uMnrsmx%23IHA.4780@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Sorry, the PC in use is Windows ME > Asking in a Windows XP newsgroup without further info was therefore doomed from the start.
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