Safe Mode won't load

[Guest Panic]

I have WinXP SP2 which, in normal use works fine. Recently I find I cannot

boot into the Safe Mode. It starts its loading but after the welcome screen

it reboots automatically. I have scanned with NIS and SpywareBot and find

nothing there. I did a repair install with my WinXP Home SP2 disk to try to

fix it if a basic Windows file is corrupted. No improvement and it took me

FOREVER to get the recent XP updates back on my system PLUS Internet

Explorer 7.0.

 

Anyone have any solutions for this problem?

[Guest Panic]

Re: Safe Mode won't load

 

FWIW. I solved my problem and others may wish to know how. I found I was

able to use msconfig.. general... to set for a Diagnostic Boot and then Safe

Mode loaded OK. So I then used the same page to uncheck "load systems

services" and selected "selective startup" again w/o the systems services

loaded. It still booted into Safe Mode OK. Now I knew it was a services

problem. So I rechecked "load systems services" and opened the Services

tab. I unchecked any service that wasn't from MS.

 

It still booted OK in Safe Mode. So now I re-checked the non-MS services 3

at a time and check for Safe Boot OK. On the 4th group Safe Mode wouldn't

boot so I knew it was 1 of those 3 services as the problem. I isolated it

to "Spywarbot scanning engine" as the culprit, unchecked it and re-checked

the remaining items. Safe Boot still OK.

 

It appears my Spywarebot program either became corrupted or isn't compatible

with WinXP Home SP2 Safe Mode. It seemed to work OK in Win normal mode. I

used Add/Remove to take the program off my computer and advised Spywarebot

people.

 

"Panic" <smartwit@home.com> wrote in message

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>I have WinXP SP2 which, in normal use works fine. Recently I find I cannot

>boot into the Safe Mode. It starts its loading but after the welcome

>screen it reboots automatically. I have scanned with NIS and SpywareBot

>and find nothing there. I did a repair install with my WinXP Home SP2 disk

>to try to fix it if a basic Windows file is corrupted. No improvement and

>it took me FOREVER to get the recent XP updates back on my system PLUS

>Internet Explorer 7.0.

>

> Anyone have any solutions for this problem?

>