Boot Twice to Go

My Win XP Pro (all updates).

Used CCleaner to clean up several weeks ago.
Did this before the CCleaner run.

On going double boot needed to go.

Power down when done.
Power on then log in and get an incomplete and unfinished desktop,
nothing works.

Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up Process Explorer and allows me a restart.

This time I am on the air so to speak.

What might be going on?
Any way to troubleshoot this?

On 22/08/2016 22:00, Golly wrote:
My Win XP Pro (all updates).

Used CCleaner to clean up several weeks ago.
Did this before the CCleaner run.

On going double boot needed to go.

Power down when done.
Power on then log in and get an incomplete and unfinished desktop,
nothing works.

Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up Process Explorer and allows me a restart.

This time I am on the air so to speak.

What might be going on?
Any way to troubleshoot this?

Two things must be happening:

1) you have "cleaned" up the important registry entries by using the
CCleaner tool;

2) Your machine is very old and so it is time to buy a new machine with
Windows 10.

You may not know this but the cables inside the box have become very
hard and brittle and so the efficiency is affected. Is it fair to say
that you haven't changed the machine since you bought this one with
Windows XP in 2001?



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Golly wrote:
My Win XP Pro (all updates).

Used CCleaner to clean up several weeks ago.
Did this before the CCleaner run.

On going double boot needed to go.

Power down when done.
Power on then log in and get an incomplete and unfinished desktop, nothing works.

Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up Process Explorer and allows me a restart.

This time I am on the air so to speak.

What might be going on?
Any way to troubleshoot this?

Re-seat everything that can plug in except cpu: ram, all cables, cards, etc.
Check the cmos battery voltage with the machine off and power unplugged.
Then run: Scandisk /f /r C: et.al.
Mine sometimes does the same thing due to flakey ram due to overclocking.

Golly wrote:
My Win XP Pro (all updates).

Used CCleaner to clean up several weeks ago.
Did this before the CCleaner run.

On going double boot needed to go.

Power down when done.
Power on then log in and get an incomplete and unfinished desktop,
nothing works.

Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up Process Explorer and allows me a restart.

This time I am on the air so to speak.

What might be going on?
Any way to troubleshoot this?

IF it's a software issue and you still can't figure it out, using System
Restore is always an option - assuming you still have a backup file
preceding this event. (But if this happened several weeks ago, that's
probably a long shot). (and using registry cleaners is NOT recommended).

Golly wrote:
My Win XP Pro (all updates).

Used CCleaner to clean up several weeks ago.
Did this before the CCleaner run.

On going double boot needed to go.

Power down when done.
Power on then log in and get an incomplete and unfinished desktop,
nothing works.

Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up Process Explorer and allows me a restart.

This time I am on the air so to speak.

What might be going on?
Any way to troubleshoot this?


And what does Event Viewer report ?

It sounds like a profile problem.
But check the Event Viewer first for
evidence of something else.

Paul