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Maybe someone can help me with this XP problem??

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Blammo300

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My friend brought over his Sony Vaio laptop today which is running Windows XP SP2. It is having some serious issues ever since he ran some spyware programs earlier today.

The computer will not enter windows, it just sits where the wallpaper is and will not load anything else. The big problem is that it does the same thing for Safe mode... I cannot enter safe mode or system restore wizard at all.

Any recommendations?
 
I was working on a box a few days ago that had the same problem and a repair install couldn't fix it. Had to format and reload........
 
Try Ctrl-Alt-Del and open the Task Manager when you see the wallpaper and see if you can load explorer.exe manually from File->New Task(Run).

I had some spyware/virus that infected the explorer shell and some other things, don't remember what. It interrupted the booting process. Loading explorer manually allowed the system to continue. Also logging out and logging back also usually loaded explorer.

If it works, download hijackthis and post your log in the spyware thread. You might need a healthy install with the same version to copy the corrupted files.
 
Well I tried to do a recovery of the drive using the Windows XP home cd but now things seem to be worse. After I did the recovery it loads into windows but before I see wallpaper or anything I get a error message and the computer reboots. It is a cycle and doesnt stop rebooting until I turn off the computer. The error message flashes so quick that I cannot read it but I did manage to see it said "Insufficient memory resources to complete...." and thats all I could see. I do not have enough time to CTRL ALT DEL now.

The other problem is before I could load the recovery console from the Home CD and enter into DOS, now it asks for a password when before it was blank. I do not know this password.
 
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