XP hangs during boot at 'windows is starting up' screen

[XcomCheetah]

I tried to speed up my windows boot process. for this i downloaded Microsoft
BootVis. it told me that my boot process takes 99 seconds and login time is
22 seconds additional. I asked it to optimize it... it displayed the messages
that reorginizing the files while optimizing and after that i have started
getting this problem.
Problem:
if i remove the network cable then the chance that the system will boot is
50%. else system hangs on the login screen with all the user names but you
can't click on any one of it. or u can say mouse can move around but the
windows doesn't catch any click... it doesn't shows the number of unread
emails under the login name... so i think windows get hang... but i m unable
to justify why the mouse still moves.
if i donot remove the network cable then the system will hang during the
boot with the screen showing message 'windows is starting up'.. it sometimes
reboot at this stage too.. or it can reach login screen with the same
symptoms that the name are displayed but you can't click and enter into the
windows.

i removed the Microsoft BootVis and then i tried to use restore point to
restore the system to an earlier date... but it failed..

Now it doesn't shut down properly also if it starts and also the windows media player is also having trouble...

i wander if windows has become corrupted or there is some virus or some spyware has gone crazy.. btw i have done a complete scan of the system couple of days ago but found none and i have also checked for the spyware thru antispyware and removed the antispyware after using it... it located couple of files (temporary files in internet explorer directory) i quarantined them. but i don't think it should have caused this trouble.

Thanks

 

[XcomCheetah]

seems like nobody has experienced such thing before...

 

[dclive]

Can you reliably log in via safe mode?

 

[XcomCheetah]

probability of logging on thru safe mode is higher than the thru normal boot process but still it is not a complete surity... Safe mode also sometime hangs at the login screen.

 

[cherrypik]

Originally posted by: XcomCheetah
I tried to speed up my windows boot process. for this i downloaded Microsoft
BootVis. it told me that my boot process takes 99 seconds and login time is
22 seconds additional. I asked it to optimize it... it displayed the messages
that reorginizing the files while optimizing and after that i have started
getting this problem.
Problem:
if i remove the network cable then the chance that the system will boot is
50%. else system hangs on the login screen with all the user names but you
can't click on any one of it. or u can say mouse can move around but the
windows doesn't catch any click... it doesn't shows the number of unread
emails under the login name... so i think windows get hang... but i m unable
to justify why the mouse still moves.
if i donot remove the network cable then the system will hang during the
boot with the screen showing message 'windows is starting up'.. it sometimes
reboot at this stage too.. or it can reach login screen with the same
symptoms that the name are displayed but you can't click and enter into the
windows.

i removed the Microsoft BootVis and then i tried to use restore point to
restore the system to an earlier date... but it failed..

Now it doesn't shut down properly also if it starts and also the windows media player is also having trouble...

i wander if windows has become corrupted or there is some virus or some spyware has gone crazy.. btw i have done a complete scan of the system couple of days ago but found none and i have also checked for the spyware thru antispyware and removed the antispyware after using it... it located couple of files (temporary files in internet explorer directory) i quarantined them. but i don't think it should have caused this trouble.

Thanks

This is happenning to my wife's labtop. Did you fix this? I thought maybe her hard drive was going because the falshing hard drive light stops when it hangs.

 

[PingSpike]

Intermitent things like this are very hard to troubleshoot. Are we sure this isn't a hardware problem? It seems like if it was software we'd see more consistency, since the boot up process should pretty much play out the same every time.