I tried to install XP in my computer, but wanted to check if disc would run first as my machine is pretty old, so done it from startup with the disc and it stalled and wouldnt install XP
But now at startup i have to choose windows2000 or XP setup at startup and it automatically chooses XP install,I have to watch startup to change the choice every time
How can i get rid of the XP install choice please
I tried upgrading my os to vista then decided I wasn't going to but ever since then I have been having problems with windows xp. When I boot up, I am given an option of choosing windows xp, or windows xp setup. I then have 3 situations:
1.If I choose windows xp my computer runs normally.
2.If I choose xp setup nothing happens I get a blank black screen.
3.If I do nothing I get a black screen that has one message, at the top it says windows is missing <windows root>system32hal.dll..How can I set my computer back to its normal state?
The subject speaks for itself.Do the f8 thing,see all of the drivers load, see the sptd.sys message and then shazam reboot and into the choice screen again. I tried all 3 safe mode choices and nada.
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only one XP installed
I have 2 hard drives that each have an installation of windows xp on them. I was wondering how I can make it so I have a choice of which hard drive I want it to boot to without having to unplug one drive. I have two SATA drives.
View 1 Replies View Relatedanybody know how to erase two of the three choices i get when i reboot?i get the choices xp pro (2)xp pro (3) xp pro setup.. no doubt they are previous installations and attempts! but when i reboot if i dont manually select the second "xp pro" choice it starts automatically on setup option! as you can see i am running xp pro!
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had Windows XP Pro on my computer, but I decided to install Fedora on my machine as well. What the problem is, is that when I boot up, my computer boots directly into Fedora (there is a few seconds where fedora will ask you to press a key to enter a menu to select which OS to use, but if you don't press anything it will go right into Fedora) but I want it to boot directly into Windows.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want a program to run at startup and I want to be able to change what I have done at any time.
There are a number of unchecked entries in msconfig and I have to use Selective Startup all the time.
If I want to revert to Normal Startup under the General tab instead of Selective Startup, the program's box automatically rechecks itself in Startup.
The Startup tab gives me a handy record of what I did and allows for an easy change of mind so long as I continue to use Selective Startup.
If I edit the Registry to stop programs running at startup, they won't show in msconfig and I lose the handy record of how it was and I may have to reinstall the program to go back to it running at startup.
I would like to accomplish this:
1. Use Normal Startup instead of Selective Startup.
2. Have some programs not run at startup, but be able to easily change back to having them run at startup.
3. Have a readily accessible list of those programs and the details as shown under the Startup tab as a reminder of how it was without having to manually enter it all into a text file or keep a notebook or reinstall.
Is there some way to use Normal Startup, stop programs running at startup, but retain or find a list of those programs (including the details under the headings Startup Item, Command, Location) that is shown when using Selective Startup with unchecked boxes under the Startup tab?
To put it another way, use Normal Startup but somehow retain the convenient flexibility of Selective Startup.
My startup time went up drastically.
I have disabled all but two of the automatic startup items using msconfig. My system used to start in less than two minutes, easily. Now it takes a more than a minute or two longer than that.
I know what the problem is; the only three items that show in the system tray after startup are:
1) The AVG Antivirus icon .
2) The Spybot SD Resident icon.
3) Local Area Connection (This is the icon which shows two computer monitors with screens that light up and go dark periodically)
Now, after the problem started, the last item, the Local Area Connection icon is the one that doesn't load, for VERY long. So it may be something to do with that. Also, just before the icon finally shows up(after which point the computer is fine to use) I've notice that a Windows security notification icon appears...it flashes, for just a second, and then is replaced by the Local Area Connection icon. For the record, these are the two icons I'm talking about:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p282/sw1sh1/LAC.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...tification.jpg
I have had my automatic updates disabled for a while now, so you might think that that's the reason the notification is showing up but I've already disabled that notification using Windows Security Center.
Try making my laptop less slow and not freeze all the time when doing the simplest of tasks.
However, my problem happens after trying to disable the Startup Items from the MSconfig dialogue.
-After I have unchecked the boxes I don't want, I click OK or Apply;
-It then tells me I have to restart for the changes to take place, so I do this;
-Then after completing its restart a message says that "The System Configuration Utility is in Diagnostic or Selective Startup mode, causing this message to be displayed and the utility to run every time Windows starts up."
-it then opens the MSconfig dialogue box again.
If I just close the utility or click ok, sure enough it keeps on opening every time I startup. Or else, what it's trying to convince me to do is to start up in Normal Mode. But I won't do this because then all the Startup Items I'd disabled become enabled again and the whole lengthy task was a waist of time!
The run link is missing from my startup menu...can anyone help me find it? I know this sounds dumb, but I really need to restore it to my startup so I
can take care of some other problems I'm having.
How do you remove the "Common Startup" items from the startup list in msconfig for Windows XP? I did locate and remove the "Run" items that are located in HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrent VersionRun.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWin XP Home edition. I'm in the Speed Up Windows Startup class. I currently have a very long list of startup programs running. Is it safe for me to disable all except security programs (Symantec Norton,AdAware,Spyguard)?Charles
View 6 Replies View RelatedI think I might need to do this.It's now impossible to click or d/click on a programme or even an email and have it open I have to click 6-10 times before the little hourglass appears.I think I need to change my startup : what do you think? Msconfig shows my startup options to be -Normal Diagnostic Selective
Ought to to choose diag?Or Selective?because I can't decide which programmes I ought to remove and which to leave in, but I'm sure I have too many.
My sister's computer is running very slowly, particularly at startup (which seems to take forever). I've got Panda antivirus software running and do reasonably regular spyware scans with AdAware, but am not sure if the problem is just that the computer is old with too little memory / overheating because it's on almost all the time / something else I haven't thought of. To help me determine what's going on, could someone much smarter than myself take a look at this HJT log and see if you see anything of concern?
View 14 Replies View RelatedThe problem is it takes an incredibly long time to startup because of these, once we close them it gets back to running fast, but until then we have to wait for them to open. I think it's causing the problem because we didn't have this problem until we installed this.How do I make it stop starting up on Windows XP? I sped up my startup on my computer by stopping useless things from running.
View 4 Replies View Relatedmy pc is windows xp professional and I have DELL.my computer was infected with different types of jeefo trojan. I had removed many of them(Welchia and manu other i dont remember) but there was another trojans still in my computer which had infected all the .EXE files(Hidrag). so i installed karsperky antivirus. I ran a full system scan and got some virus but Hidrag trojan was still there. I had many .EXE files and I had to remove all of them by karsperky one by one. I decided to download a hidrag remover. during the scan time Microsoft antispyware showed me a message whether i want to allow a file to run at startup by that software and i clicked yes.after a while the software asked to restart my pc to scan network also, so i did. but after restart my pc didnt start, because after I enter my user password, it automatically log off and again user password window displays.
after this problem I tried safe mode and "using last windows setting'' but did not work.then I tried to repair it using my windows xp repair tool which only copy the windows file and other data remain there, and that also did not work.Please give me advice and solution to repair it.I have some data which are important for me and dont want to lose them. Even if there is a way to recover data, i will be formatting C drive.
I was going to do a clean install of 2000 over 2000,it won't let me do the install.
I thought I'd clean it up, so that is working out great, the seller didn't leave too much on there...but everytime it restarts I have the option to run windows 2000 or run windows 2000 setup.how to make it start up normally?
After a reinstall i now get the option of "xp pro or xp pro" bit daft really anyone got a clue
also having two harddrives i choose this time to put windows on the smaller one 37gb
i cannot get windows to call it "c drive"
I've just reloaded my computer, running really well now!But another stick of RAM in it, which made it a lot more usable!
I want to try and get rid of my startup icons on the start bar.It really slows it down on startup.I've got System Mechanic, which can manage startup icons, but it's hard to identify,
How to identify the different icons, when using a program which shuts them down on startup?
I somehow customized my startup to display a screen that reads, "This computer is set to explode in 12 seconds. Run away as fast as you can." The whole startup process stops until I click "accept."
I think it was some program that I was fooling around with and I thought it would be cute. But I've been sick of it for a long time now and don't know how to get rid of it.
every time i boot up or restart my comp i get a screen saying this:
Please select the Operating System to start:
Microsoft Xp Home Edition
Restore Microsoft Home Edition
for troubleshooting and advanced startup options for windows, press F8.
Ive tried selecting both options and it boots up normally into Xp, but then when i boot up again or restart the comp the same screen appears every time
P4 2.8
512mb ram
100gb hard drive
Windows Xp Home sp2
When I log in to my computer It takes long time load up......the problem is that after everything is said and don I have aprox. 56 processes running. I do not have any programs in my startup folder. I know there is a way to stop all of these programs from starting up. So my questions are 1. How do i stop all these programs from loading? 2. What are the programs that have to run for windows to work?
View 2 Replies View RelatedRecently reinstalled windows on computer. Would like to not have as much on startup as it has. Is it safe to shut off KBD.exe related to the multimedia keys? also Hotkeys command, and Igfxtray? only use F keys incase computer screws up.
View 3 Replies View Relatedit gave the c drive a big red X and dropped tons of pos.tmp files in places. I downloaded an antivirus (the program was fine, it worked for my friends who had the same virus) and ran it. Randomly in the middle of the running my computer just died. It reset itself. So I went back into the account, and it reset itself again. I've done some work and am able to realize that the system will LOAD to the point where the account becomes active. Before any program can be used the computer restarts itself.
View 2 Replies View Relatedspeed up my pc because it takes forever for my computer to startup. So first I went to add/remove programs and uninstalled things I didn't think I needed. Then I found some software online that is supposed to help clean your windows registry. So here's what I installed just this morning: RegCure and Pareto Logic Privacy Controls. I ran scans in both and ran the auto fixes for both. but now i am geting start up error
View 14 Replies View RelatedHi, i'm having an issue where even when i close it then reboot normally,a window opens up on my desktop pointing to a certain folder i had open a while back ie. c est everytime i boot up and log into my account.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a P4 512MB computer running Win XP SP2. Latley svchost.exe is using 100% CPU at startup. I have to open the task manager and kill the procces.Although I'vr found several posts on it, I can't find a good solution for this problem.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been using this utility for about 6 months now and its been sitting in my startup menu all this time. I'm currently trying to clean it out and leave only the important stuff. I'm wondering if i take AVG out will i take advantage of its features like the resident shield and email scanning, anyone know?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt seems lots of people are having problems with ICQ and WinXP not finding a network/internet connection upon XP startup (especially those on DSL modems like myself, or those with LAN/T1's, etc.)The Problem is that when XP loads, ICQ pops up and says "no connection detected". This occurs despite the fact that 'Net Detect Agent' and 'automatically connect to internet when no connection present' are checked. The previous solution was to move Net Detect Agent *out* of the Startup folder, put a shortcut on the Desktop, and use that when you wanted to connect.I was browsing through the boards here and came across a thread discussing this problem: http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=245They did not come across a solution, however it did give me an idea..I tried it .. and it WORKS!! Read on...Here's how to do it (am using WinXP Pro):1. Go to the Group Policy Editor (Run->"gpedit.msc")2. Under 'User Configuration', click "Administartive Templates"3. Click 'System'-> 'Logon'4. In the window on the right, double-click on "Run these programs at user logon"5. Make sure 'Enabled' is checked, then click 'Show'6. You'll now want to add ICQ's Net Agent Detect to the list (which is probably empty unless you've already been in here). To do this, first locate on your HD the exact location of 'NDetect.exe'.Example: C:InternetICQNDetect.exe Click 'Add', then type the filename & path of the above file7.
Click 'OK', 'OK', and 'OK' again to exit.The next few steps are important: 8. Now make sure that there are NO traces of ICQ or Net Detect Agent in your Programs->Startup folder. If there are, delete them from Startup.9. Start up ICQ, and go to 'Connections'(Main->Preferences->Connections->General tab). Under 'Launch' make sure 'Launch ICQ at startup' is NOT checked.10. Click 'OK'. Disconnect from Internet if connected.REBOOT.If everything goes properly, you should now see the Net Detect Agent appear in the system tray as WinXP starts up the desktop. When you connect to the Net, it magically disappears.. to be replaced with the ICQ 'flower' which will shortly find a connection and voila!
I don't know what I installed or did wrong lately to have this blue screen to keep popping up when I open the computer. It happens randomly, but more frequent as of now. The blue screen says "Windows has come to a problem and shut down to prevent future damage to your computer," or something of that nature. Then it further goes into saying that I should check my computer if there's enough physical memory. I have a total of 70.3 GB total HD space, and 17.3 GB is free, how can it be the physical memory problem? I have 512 MB RAM, in which about 250-300 is free, and the remaining is usually running. The problem sometimes doesn't even pop up at startup, it sometimes pops up when I'm working on the computer. This error shutdown is sometimes accompanied by lagging, or is followed with multiple programs functionally at very slow rates.
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