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XP PROBLEMS!!

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OK, here is my situation. Sometimes when I reboot XP, my computer will shutdown fine, startup and get to the login screen, show loading preferences, show the background and that will be all it shows. I cant figure it out. I have to do ctrl-alt-del and tell it to reboot, and then it does just fine. I look in the Event Viewer and there is nothing, but the standard ACPI error about something. I am not entirely sure what the deals is with this computer. I noticed this problem yesterday AFTER installing the powertoys. Could that cause a problem?? I am really getting annoyed at this. Someone please help me out here!!!

linman
 
What's the "standard ACPI error about something"? All cases of WinXP failing to boot all the way to desktop that I've seen, so far, have been driver or device issues. Don't be misled by that statement. A lot of software packages install system "drivers". If PowerToys is the only thing you've added to the system recently, then I suppose it could be conflicting with something else that was already present. However, I haven't seen the PowerToys cause problems on any WinXP machine yet.

Sounds like something is being slow to initialize. How long have you waited with the system in this condition where it's just short of the full desktop? I'm wondering if it could manage to make it to the desktop if you waited for 10-15 minutes.

- Collin
 
OK, here is what the problem (I think) was. I had set 2 paging memory sizes (identical) on the same drive, but on another partition. So I had close to 2gigs of swap space/paging file. So I took the one on my D drive and it seems to work just fine. My stupid mistake. Oh well. Thanks for your help.

linman
 
That's an interesting symptom of two page files on the same disk. Definetely one for the XP Help Desk File 🙂
 
Ya, I can hardly wait to try it -- on someone else's machine! Wifey played a nasty practical joke on me last night. Time for payback! 😀

- Collin
 
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