my biggest problem is when i try to start up my computer with Windows XP it freezes right before it goes to Desktop and i have asked many ppl and even went to Microsoft.com and still no help. I had Windows ME on it then i tryed to upgrade to Windows XP and now when i try to start it up it freezes i have tryed turning off many programs in the repair area and even starting in many different modes nothing is working. so if anyone has any ideas at all i will glady try them out even if it sounds lame as hell.
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may be u have some faulty program @ startup or too many programs in startup
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PC Magazine came out in June with the top 10 worst programs ever this included everything including spamming,ad ware,spy ware,and basically just messing your computer up. Well guess what was number 1 AOL. My friend here in Des Moines had the same problem he downloaded something from the web that had AOL attached to it. When he shut the computer off for that night and turned it back on in the morning he got the install AOL window. His was so bad that when he clicked on cancel, it would shut his computer off. Msconfig is for trouble shooting your start up if you are having problems. It allows you to shut of each start up device until you find out which one is the problem.  On the general window put the dot on normal startup,all the boxes under selective startup should be checked,diagnostic and the selective startup should not be checked also use modified boot.ini should not be checked.next in the system.ini click on the button on the bottom that says enable all. In the win.ini box click on the button that says enable all. In the box that says boot.ini nothing should checked set the time out  at 2 sec. this is the amount of time you see the startup window during the boot the lower the seconds are set the faster the computer will boot up after all who wants to look at the MS window for a half of minute. In the service window click on enable all of them. In the startup window click on enable all of them. Note that after doing each one of the 5 windows you have to click on APPLY or it will not take any of them. Also on the general window dont try launch system restore half the time it messes the computer up and if you dont know how to use it it can be a major pain in the +ss the last time I used it it messed up my computer so bad I had to reinstall my Operating System (I'm a IT Tech if you havent figured that out yet) After you get done doing all of this restart the computer so it will reset to the new settings.  AOL will take off any browser and install its own. Try going into the control panel, add and remove programs and see if it actually installed itself. If it did try to uninstall it. If it wont uninstall start your computer in the safe-mode by pressing the F8 button at start up. Do the same thing as above and see if it will uninstall then. If you didnt find it in add and remove programs, it might be doing off of a cookie. Open the control panel and click on internet options. Open that up and click on view files, see if there is any files that say anything with AOL in it. If there is delete all your cookies which is a good idea to do everyday anyhow. Restart the computer and see if it is still doing its crap. If it is then the file attached itself to your registry. To get it out of your registry (note I suggest that unless you know what you are doing dont go into the registry because you can mess it up if you delete the wrong thing) if you do decide to try it click on start and open the run command and type in regedit. This will get you into the registry. Click on the edit button at the top then click on find and type in AOL this will search your registry for anything and everything that says AOL when it shows a AOL file right click on it and delete it. Keep doing this until it finally says that it cant find the file anymore. This is a pain in the +ss but it is the only way to get AOL completey off your computer and to put it blunty most people cant get AOL off of their computers fast enough. What really sucks is that MS puts it on the install disc and there are rumors in the IT Tech community that if you use it or not every once in a while it sends info to AOL without you even knowing it. The reason I believe it does, is because before I went into the registry and deleted all of it which took me about an hour (I have never used it) I have Zone Labs Fire Wall which one night asked me if AOL could have permission to connect to the web. Needless to say I was like WHAT I DONT USE AOL so I clicked no and clicked on the lock bu
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Software culpit:\n1. This is caused by the programs are running on startup, those with a icon next to the clock, Avg is a must, but, Advanced windows care and the registry cleaner and you don't need them everyday(now they failed you anyway), and they taken up system resources like Ram, cpu workload etc, thats might be a problem, try uninstall them see if problem gone.\n2. Try uninstall some unnecessary program, use the uninstall link to do that.\n3. Try to backup your important files and reformat your harddrive and install xp from start again if no solution is viable.\nHardware culpit:\nIf your pc > 4 years old, it can barely handle xp with the lot of software and updates you installed, may be is time to buy a new one.
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No, you aren't in trouble, but you do apparently have a bogus or pirated copy of XP.  Where did you get it?  If you bought it, you should have a key affixed to the CD case.  Try it again, making sure you aren't making some error, caps lock on, etc.  It's easy to mix up a B with an 8, that type of thing.  If it still won't work take it up with the seller.  If it's an OEM that came with the computer, look for a restore disk.  Worse case scenario is you will have to purchase a good copy of XP.  If you were ripped off by a retailer, and are willing to give MS the information about it, they may give you a discount to get it fixed.
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Restart the system, keep hitting the F8 key until you get into the menu, at the menu select "Use last known good configuration"\n\nIf that works then bingo, if not then if you can get into windows at all then go to start--> run and type ( or if you are lazy copy and paste this command )\n\nsfc /scannow\n\nMake sure to have the xp disc or the recovery disc handy.\n\nIf that does not work then back up all of your data and do a clean install.\n\nHow to do a repair install :\n\nhttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm\n\nHow to do a clean install :\n\nhttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html\n\nHope this helps.
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It happens, just go to 'my computer', then find the drive and double click, it will then start up. It can get annoying but windows is lame so what do you expect?
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I have a Dell computer, about 8 months old,512 RAM-100gigs hard drive, and it has been doing stuff like that from day one. Just spent $200 on a new hard drive, and it helped a lot, but it still does it {freezes up} from time to time. Guess Dell computers are just cheap pieces of sh*t. Hope yours isn't a Dell. \nDe-fragmenting and disc cleaning helps, but isn't always the answer to the problem. Be sure to check for spyware. Spybot is a good spyware remover.
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When it is a hardware problem, I'll take it to computer shop. But when it is something other than a hardware problem, I'll fix it myself. Want to know how? Simply reformat and reinstall windows. I love doing it.
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Ive got this problem at the moment - manage to download SP1 but it keeps crashing when i try to download SP2 - I don't know if it's a problem at Microsoft end or at my end, but i do know i got a lot of Trojans that i removed a little while back so I'm going to re-install windows XP again in case when the Trojans were removed it corrupted my windows in some way
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Most likely you have a Hard Drive problem. You need to get a Hard Disk Utility (maybe one came with your PC) that self-boots and you can run a Hard Disk Scan to repair the bad sector. I can say that is 95% the cause of this issue. All is not lost. It isn't toast.You do need to get a hold of a Hard Disk Repair Software such as Ultimate Boot CD. It's free and will work. Once you repair this sector, XP will boot and do it's own HDD scan and Voila!
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the problem may not be your software. I believe its your cd rom drive.  i have thesame problem when i installed my xp OS in my pc.  Good thing i have a spare cd rom drive. Try to install it with a different cd rom drive.
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Do yourself a favor and buy a licensed copy of XP.  \n\nAnd when you get it, reinstall Windows doing a "clean" install.  You'll be surprised how much of a difference that will make.  Look into making backups onto DVD or a second hard drive as well.  Once you do a clean install and reinstall all the apps you use the most, make a backup right away.  That way you'll have a quick restore disc you can go back to anytime you have problems down the road.
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I had the same problem on my computer a while back. I tried everything to get rid of it, but I eventually broke down and bought a windows product key. It was something like $150. I'm still pissed about it.
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Windows XP Repair Installation\n\nAt some point you may need to repair the installation of Windows\nXP. This is preferable to a clean install in many cases since it\nattempts to only repair your copy of windows without having to \ndelete all the files on your computer first. In many cases a \nrepair installation is enough to fix the problem. A repair install\ndeletes the files normally installed by windows XP and then \nreinstalls them off the disc. A repair install will not rebuild \nyour computer's registry, delete applications and user settings, \nor fix problems caused being caused by a program.\n\n1. First you have to boot the computer with the Windows XP cd in\n   the cd tray. You will see a black screen and it will ask you \n   to press any key to boot from the cd so press the spacebar \n   and your computer will boot from the CD.\n\n2. After a moment you will be taken to the Windows XP Setup \n   screen. Though the second option says to repair do not press \n   R. Instead press enter to select the setup for Windows XP.\n\n3. Next, you have to accept the license agreement from windows. \n   Once you've done that it will search for your existing \n   installation of windows.\n\n4. Once it has finished detecting the installation you need to \n   select the XP installation you want to repair. You can repair \n   the installation by pressing R. If you don't see the repair \n   option you will need to do a clean installation. Your version \n   of windows may have been damaged in a way that it cannot carry \n   out a repair. \n\n5. Setup will then copy the files it needs to the hard drive and \n   reboot the computer. A message will come up asking you if you \n   want to boot from the cd, don't press any keys and just let \n   the timer run out. The set up will continue and look like is \n   doing a clean install but all of your applications and \n   settings will be intact when it finished.\n\nAn important note is to not activate your windows over the \ninternet right away. Always enable the XP firewall to protect \nyourself.
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do a windows xp INPLACE UPGRADE..\n\nAKA windows xp repair.  boot from cd.. (DONT GOTO THE RECOVERY CONCSOLE) when the list of windows comes up choose the option to repair it.
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I'm not saying your problem is what mine was, but last Friday my Dell laptop started doing the same thing.  It would go to the black Windows XP screen and then it would just go black.  And stay black.  I found out the next day, after having the Geek Squad people at Best Buy look at it that it was my motherboard.  I had let the battery die and when I plugged it in, sparks flew up from the surge protector and they said that's probably what did it.  Had to buy a new computer.\n\nIf you have any friends who are good with computers, ask them.  \n\nBut if it is something that can't be fixed, those people were able to transfer all my files (not programs just files) from my old computer to my new one.\n\nGood luck - I know exactly how horrifying that is!!!!
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Hi Maria,\n\nReally, you need to upgrade from ME to XP as soon as you possibly can.  ME is possibly the worst Operating System Microsoft ever came out with.  It is loaded with errors and vulnerabilities.  Until you're able to do this, though, you can try some things suggested in the link I've included below for you that talks about User32.dll errors.  I hope this works for you.\n\nAs far as updating your drivers, just go to the Microsoft Windows Update site (click on Tools, then click on Windows Update).  You'll get all the updates and many of the drivers your computer needs.  For specific drivers, you can go to the specific site for those, such as video drivers, sound cards, etc.\n\nThe ActiveX message isn't that big a deal.  If you are sure of the website that you are using, go ahead and allow the ActiveX control to be loaded.  The only thing that may happen if you don't load it is that the display may not look the way the author intended.  It will not harm your computer in any way.\n\nAgain, though, please upgrade from ME as soon as you can.  You'll be happy you did.  You can get XP Home for less than $100, or XP Pro for something like $185 or so, depending on where you go.\n\nBest of luck to you.