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by varaamit

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How do i stop XP professional from hanging at the load up of windows? it forces me to restart the computer and i must do this many times before it logs in.

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by sgt_shultz

does it do this in safe mode? tap f8 key while it is restarting and pick Safe Mode. see if it starts faster then. if yes, use Start/Run/msconfig to see what is trying to load at startup. maybe you have a worm?

by lmon

Sounds like you have the sasser worm. You must download stinger to remove it. Then you must go to windows update with the patch they have.

by trancewarp

I have two hardware-based solutions...

1) If you just recently updated drivers for some hardware, you may want to roll them back. I had numerous problems upgrading my nVidia card's drivers after a particular version (I now own an ATI card).

2) If you have recently inserted a new expansion card (sound, tv capture, etc.) try setting the cards in different slots. Cards still use interrupt requests after all and some may conflict.

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