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Windows hangs near end of boot
Windows Home 5.1 with SP3
Compaq Presario, 3 to 4 years old Recently (last calendar week) boot and startup seemed slower than usual (removed norton 360, installed mcaffee from comcast on or about 2/27) Thursday 3/5 boot and startup hung before displaying toolbar. Able to access only a few programs, NOT "START" on toolbar, NOT system restore. I was able to find a diagnostic log (unable to repeat today) that seemed to indicate one or more of several background programs were not able to complete opening. Attempts 3/5, 3/6 also failed. Ran hard drive maintenance (spinrite) 3/7 and 3/8 (takes a long time). Tonight (3/8), a little more of toolbar displayed, but "start" and any other place on toolbar gives hourglass. Alt|Cntrl|Del will get task manager, and allows terminating non responsive programs and shutdown. Shutdown turnoff attempts to end {44c6fb81-kbdwindcls-b4f7-11d9fdd0800460222f0}, fails to end, reports program as not responding, select end now. Windows shuts down, turns off computer. Rebooted again while working on this. Can't believe it. Seems to be working. Found the "computer managementsystem toolevent viewerapplication. The entries that were "error" "application hang" or "error" "mssql$pinnaclesys" that were present each time boot failed either do not appear or, in case of "mssql$ ..." is a warning, not error. Shutdown was normal (except that every night since 2/27 or so there has been a Windows Update). Things that fix themselves for no apparent reason leave me very concerned. -- w buck |
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Windows hangs near end of boot
aquanut
Moving from Norton to McAfee is exchanging one resource hog for another. There are better freeware alternatives. Your long post is difficult to follow. Does the system now boot and shutdown properly? Are any devices malfunctioning? Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information. Open Components under System Summary and click on Problem Devices. Is anything listed there? Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties, Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code? Have a look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Errors and Warnings and post copies here. Don't post any more than 48 hours ago. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "aquanut" wrote in message ... Windows Home 5.1 with SP3 Compaq Presario, 3 to 4 years old Recently (last calendar week) boot and startup seemed slower than usual (removed norton 360, installed mcaffee from comcast on or about 2/27) Thursday 3/5 boot and startup hung before displaying toolbar. Able to access only a few programs, NOT "START" on toolbar, NOT system restore. I was able to find a diagnostic log (unable to repeat today) that seemed to indicate one or more of several background programs were not able to complete opening. Attempts 3/5, 3/6 also failed. Ran hard drive maintenance (spinrite) 3/7 and 3/8 (takes a long time). Tonight (3/8), a little more of toolbar displayed, but "start" and any other place on toolbar gives hourglass. Alt|Cntrl|Del will get task manager, and allows terminating non responsive programs and shutdown. Shutdown turnoff attempts to end {44c6fb81-kbdwindcls-b4f7-11d9fdd0800460222f0}, fails to end, reports program as not responding, select end now. Windows shuts down, turns off computer. Rebooted again while working on this. Can't believe it. Seems to be working. Found the "computer managementsystem toolevent viewerapplication. The entries that were "error" "application hang" or "error" "mssql$pinnaclesys" that were present each time boot failed either do not appear or, in case of "mssql$ ..." is a warning, not error. Shutdown was normal (except that every night since 2/27 or so there has been a Windows Update). Things that fix themselves for no apparent reason leave me very concerned. -- w buck |
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Windows hangs near end of boot
aquanut
Moving from Norton to McAfee is exchanging one resource hog for another. There are better freeware alternatives. Your long post is difficult to follow. Does the system now boot and shutdown properly? Are any devices malfunctioning? Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information. Open Components under System Summary and click on Problem Devices. Is anything listed there? Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties, Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code? Have a look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Errors and Warnings and post copies here. Don't post any more than 48 hours ago. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "aquanut" wrote in message ... Windows Home 5.1 with SP3 Compaq Presario, 3 to 4 years old Recently (last calendar week) boot and startup seemed slower than usual (removed norton 360, installed mcaffee from comcast on or about 2/27) Thursday 3/5 boot and startup hung before displaying toolbar. Able to access only a few programs, NOT "START" on toolbar, NOT system restore. I was able to find a diagnostic log (unable to repeat today) that seemed to indicate one or more of several background programs were not able to complete opening. Attempts 3/5, 3/6 also failed. Ran hard drive maintenance (spinrite) 3/7 and 3/8 (takes a long time). Tonight (3/8), a little more of toolbar displayed, but "start" and any other place on toolbar gives hourglass. Alt|Cntrl|Del will get task manager, and allows terminating non responsive programs and shutdown. Shutdown turnoff attempts to end {44c6fb81-kbdwindcls-b4f7-11d9fdd0800460222f0}, fails to end, reports program as not responding, select end now. Windows shuts down, turns off computer. Rebooted again while working on this. Can't believe it. Seems to be working. Found the "computer managementsystem toolevent viewerapplication. The entries that were "error" "application hang" or "error" "mssql$pinnaclesys" that were present each time boot failed either do not appear or, in case of "mssql$ ..." is a warning, not error. Shutdown was normal (except that every night since 2/27 or so there has been a Windows Update). Things that fix themselves for no apparent reason leave me very concerned. -- w buck |
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