Strange boot problem...please help

[Sandan]

Everytime I boot up into windows xp pro my system hangs at the desktop. I can see my desktop background picture but No icons show up nor can I get the task bar to show up. I have to hit control alt delete and log off my user account then log back on and all is fine. I have defragmented my drives and run checkdisk...No problems show up. This has been going on for about 3 days. Any thoughts

My system is: XP pro, AMD x2 3800+, Asrock 939 dual sata board, 2 sticks of 512 RAM (spectek), a 160G Maxtor drive, a 80G Western Dig. drive, an ATI 9800 video card, 1 DVD reader, 1 DVD/RW, Floppy, several usb devices (printer, card reader) and an Antec 350W smartpower PSU.

 

[Sandan]

As an update.....Didn't notice this before. If I let my system sit on the desktop for about 4-5 minutes the full boot process finishes without logging off and back on again.

 

[dfuze]

If it has only been going on a few days, I would copy any files you recently have done to a CD/DVD and then use a restore point.

 

[imported_shader]

Originally posted by: Sandan
As an update.....Didn't notice this before. If I let my system sit on the desktop for about 4-5 minutes the full boot process finishes without logging off and back on again.

by that do you mean;

1 you turn the computer on
2 you get to the windows logon prompt
3 logon to windows
4 wait 4-5 minutes
5 then you see desktop?

if that is the case it is either a problem with windows startup files or some program set to autoload when windows starts (maybe spyware). or maybe something in your local profile is corrupt (logon as admin and delete your local profile then logon again)