Start Up Window Login Choice
Feb 25, 2007
i have a dell computer with 2 hard drives and i installed windows xp media center edition on the second hard drive. now it gave me a choice of which one to go to. which was all fine. now being like 2 month later i didnt want that any more. so i formatted the second hardd rive so now i didnt want that choice at start up, but its still there and when i go and pick the one i formatted it says thats its not valid. which is right but what do i do to remove that message?
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Oct 13, 2009
I was running Win XP Home SP3 when it had a problem. This became fatal due to an IER flaw (Idiot Editing Registry.) Having no idea where my original disc was, I purchased and installed XP Pro SP3. Everything is fine except for the minor irritant that on every start up I am given the choice to start either Pro or Home version.I could probably do the one extra mouse click on a million boots for less trouble that it will take to fix it, but it just offends my compulsive sensibilities. Any suggestions on how to make it go to XP Pro without intervention? I have tried uninstallers and none of them see the Home version. I have deleted all the Home version files, which may have been dumb. I thought about a registry cleaner, but decided to ask before I got myself in trouble.
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Oct 30, 2006
Is there any way I can be given a choice of which Hard Drive I can startup on when I turn on my computer if I put 2 individual Hard drives in it?If there is, I will purchase another copy of XP but I need to know before going to the expense of buying another XP operating system.
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Jan 7, 2005
I've been browsing the web for an answer to my laptop's problem but no luck so far.
My laptop specs are: purchased in 2002 AMD athlon 1399MHz Windows XP (recently updated to SP2) 350 MB RAM On boot up, the laptop occassionally starts going very fast when the Windows XP logo is displayed, the DVD drive then starts going crazy, the login window appears but the cursor is blinking very fast and I can't move the mouse
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Aug 1, 2005
i was wondering if i could delete windows xp and start out with windows xp
fresh
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Jul 16, 2005
When I turn on my computer a little window{1&half inches} appears with a red circle with a cross through it and my computer makes those nasty noises.The box just shows the sign and has and ok box and thats it.Can anyone tell me what it means and if I have to do anything.
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May 15, 2007
I noticed something was seriously hogging my memory or something as my pc was running really slow and you could hear it working overtime even when doing nothing. I ran McAfee 2007 and it removed 98 items and could not remove one of them, said it may be partially removed but not totally - c:windows.system32 AWTTSP.DLL.I ran spybot and it found some usuall offenders. I tried to go into the sys32 folder to manually remove the AWTTSP.DLL file and it would not let me. So I tried to restart my machine as the McAfee option offered to rescan upon start up, I did this and when I get to my password login screen before windows, all the text is in dingbats format and it wont accept my password.
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May 2, 2007
I am currently running XP Home and every time i start my computer up and login to windows, an all users window opens up, does anyone know how to get rid of this?
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Jun 22, 2008
My hp pavilion laptop won't start up. It keeps getting stopped at the screen before I enter my username and password to log in. There's a sign that just keeps saying
Please wait... (on top)
Windows is starting up....
And it's stuck there, it won't get anywhere.
I tried using the recovery disk, running chkdsk /r and fixboot but nothing happened, it's still the same thing
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Aug 26, 2005
C:Program FilesCommonWhich contains the Microsoft Shared folder opens on start up everytime. Any idea how to stop it?
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Aug 3, 2005
Each time I boot, the Windows Explorer window appears on my desktop. I can't figure out what is causing this. It's not in my Start up folder.
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Feb 28, 2008
I took the laptop home and tried to set it up on my home network. It had mapped network drives and the login still came up under the company domain. In the System settings, I changed it from being a "Computer primarily used in an office or work environment" to a "Computer primarily used in a home office environment". Now when it starts up, the domain is gone and I can't log in to the computer. It was under his work username and password, and it NO LONGER ACCEPTS THE PASSWORD because it is no longer logging in under a domain!
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Feb 14, 2005
I did I make a ghost image of my xp system (7 gigs), and I want to use that image to install on 2 other systems.BUT,as you know xp takes an image your system so you can not put ehe hard drive into another ssystem and have it work. I install in on to a different system, and in took great(installed with on problems) but know as soon as I restart I can here it but it goes driectly to the safe mode,last best configuration,start window normal screen.
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Jul 8, 2005
Small irritating issue here, I have a pc running WindowsXP Pro and every time the system is rebooted I get the System Configuration Utility box come up, the one saying, "You have used the System Config Utility to make changes to the way windows starts.etc." I have seen this before and am use to it as I use the utility to stop alot of apps. The difference this time is that I cannot get the box from appearing after each startup. I have checked the box that says "Don't show this message or launch the system configuration utility when windows starts", but it shows up every time. I have also tried to remove this from the registry.
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Jan 28, 2009
I have been having an ongoing problem with the dreaded "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt...". This has been happening for many months now and each time I have tried a different solution. Here is what I have tried in the past
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Mar 31, 2005
The main problem: I try to open "My Computer" "Control Panel" "Search" that type of stuff from the start menu and it seems like my OS just completely freezes up, the start menu window just freezes and locks onto the background, desktop becomes inactive where I can not click any icons or anything, usualy this happens for a period of time then it just self terminates, screen goes blank to background desktop image for a couple secs then comes back (as if I had not tried to open whatever I had tried to)
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Sep 6, 2007
My computer is restarting after 3 seconds when i am trying to start the computer. I am coming to the desktop and i can wait for 3 seconds and then suddenly, blue screen with white text and some red is showed to me for just one second. And the the computer restarts.
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Mar 24, 2008
I came in the other morning to a computer warning: UNABLE TO WRITE TO VOLUME G and I knew it was going to be a bad day! In a nut shell:My XPSP1 machine makes it to my desktop wallpaper and then hangs. No icons or task bar or start button. Though the HD lght stays solid, it is active and may be accessed via a networked computer but XP doesn't finish loading. Safe mode is no different except I see a blank screen instead of wallpaper Though I can browse the XP CD through Task manager, nothing will run and attempts to run any file will return a NO PROGRAM ASSOCIATED error The PC will not boot from or even try to start up the XP CD. (just spins up) The six XP startup diskettes downloaded from MS hangs up here or there every time and fails to boot.
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Aug 7, 2008
I think I have 2 copies of XP home on my PC.When I turn the machine on, there is a choice of c windows or c win. One is a clean never used profile the other is my familiar 4 user names.I tried to re-install my operating system with the Dell OEM disc to fix some peculiar problems and did sosmething wrong. How do I get rid of the 2nd copy and how do I reinstall the xp home..now I think I am getting password errors and I never changed it.
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Oct 4, 2004
running PFS First Choice (A dos program) on XP SP2. I did get it working on XP prior to SP2 (once) using instructions from dgr on 18 May 2004. Now all I get no matter what I do is error 6009.Anyone still able to run this program on XP after the SP2 upgrade
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Dec 10, 2005
name of pc is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of this server to find out if u have xs permissions. Logon failure : the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer
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Jan 19, 2005
I cannot view in full screen anymore.I created a website that lets a user enter their name and social # and then choose a test in 1 of 3 languages. Once you choose a language, a new browser window opens and the test/information is displayed in this new window.
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Mar 15, 2006
1st im using win98,then i upgrade the OS to Winxp,the problem here,i don't want the win98 anymore,but while loading in BIOS,it stop n ask me which OS i want to use,Windows 98 or Windows XP..that mean i have 2 OS in the machine..so how can i del the choice of win 98 so next time i switch on the pc it go straight loading Winxp,no more to choose which one of the OS..
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Mar 2, 2005
Does anyone know how to changing that default choice? I want an administrator account and a public account. In the public account I don't want any right-clicking, changing desktop icons, things like this. I also want all of the things left on the desktop (downloads, shortcuts, etc.) to be gone when they log out. I did look at group policy editor but I don't like it. So I put System Policy Editor on it from a Windows Server 2000 CD.I have a .POL file made already and can't get it to work. Any websites on this would also be great.
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Jan 14, 2008
I have two hard disks . I installed windows xp on one hard disk and win 2000 on the other disk. Now I remove one hard disk (with windows 2000) from my computer. But whenever I boot my computer, I saw OS choice menu and I have to choose OS to boot from win xp. I would like to remove windows 2000 from this menu list.
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Apr 2, 2008
I have a slight problem which i would like a little help with. Ony my acer desktop i got it preinstalled with windows xp media center edition. Due to some issues related to norton internet securtiy i decided to reinstall windows xp media center edition. But since i had quite a lot of files to back up, on my D drive i decided to install windows xp home edition that i bought. (note xp media center is installed in C drive). After installing xp home edition and doing the necessary backups that i had intended for , i proceeded to reinstall widnows xp media center edition that i successfully performed. Then i had used windows xp hoem edition to transfer all my files back into the xp media center edition.
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Dec 1, 2007
I'm gonna buy a new gaming PC and I'll have 4GB DDR2. I've heard that on a 32-bit os I will only see about 3.5GB, so I'll have to install the 64-bit os.I've also heard that on a 64-bit os some softwares aren't running well as a 32-bit os. Is it true?
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Jan 14, 2009
I first zeroed the HD and then re-installed XP Pro with a clean install but when I boot i get the option to boot from two different operating systems. I even pulled the CMOS battery to clear the bios settings but still get the option. What can I do to remove this?
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Jan 1, 2007
I am working with my son to build a new computer. We need to decide which Microsoft operating system to buy / install. We have a new ASUS motherboard and an Intel Pentium D 3.4GHz (dual core 64 bit). We also have a PCI express 16 graphics card. His primary use is gaming and also MS office applications for school.I have pretty much ruled out XP Pro 64 because I am reading about lack of application and driver support, but open to input on this.We need to choose between XP home, XP Media center, or XP pro (all 32 bit). I am not particularly concerned about Vista upgrade, although I do understand the upgrade path from XP Media includes the full graphical interface improvements in Vista Aero, and the upgrade from XP Home does not.
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May 30, 2009
Hoping someone can help. Just reformated my hard drive and since then, everytime I boot up, it asks which OS I want to uses, Windows XP Media Centre or Windows 2003. Don't understand since I have only one system (Media Ctr). Aslo, there is only one HD in my computer and it is not partitioned.
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Jul 11, 2008
installed xp pro over xp home edition(formated).now on bootup i can pick xp pro or home.its gives me so many seconds to choose on black screen.
is there a way to skip that entry on bootup,as i have to pick xp pro.
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