boot process

I am working on my sons laptop he wanted me to clean his hard drive and reinstall windows7 I have 2 applications that will clean his hard drive dban and killdisk both have to be started in the boot up process, but they wont start because the laptop goes straight to the windows logo then desktop...

Urgent...Please help me.....help for mac on vmware Dear respected mods and members.... i need ur serious and kind help in this case....as i am stuck somewhere,i am myself advanced user but i cant sort it out.... i have mac osXLink Removed 10.5.6 dmg (retail),i converted it to iso with ultraiso...

A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...

On some newer systems (even home built), the function key message for entering Setup (or any other message) disappears before you get a chance to read it and some monitors are slow to display text when powering up the system, so you may have to reboot to read it again. So, during the boot...

I installed Windows 7 Professional without problems, including updating all my drivers. After loading the basic operating system I noticed, as part of the boot-up process, following the 4 colour moving Microsoft logo, there then follows exactly 60 seconds of blank screen, followed by the final...

installed windows 7 ultimate(tried both 64 and 32 bit) to my pc. but after installation when it reboots for the 1st time, it shows a black screen with the mouse pointer. i waited 1/2 hour but no use.:frown: my pc config core2quad q6600, asus P5KVM, 2 gb ddr2 ram, nvidia 9600gt 512mb and 380 gb...

Hi all, This is my first post here and I have a quick question. I have a new Acer AS1410 running Win7 Premium 64. When I logon to any of my user accounts there is a really quick flash of a little box near the cursor which I think reads, "Authorization" or something like that. It flashes by so...

I have Vista installed on my c: drive and windows 7 is installed on another drive ans K: My system dual boots with 7 as the main system. I want to make windows 7 become my C: drive with no dual boot. I also would like to make the vista drive able to be seen in windows 7 so that I may transfer...

I've got a few questions but I don't know if this is the right place to post them. I hope someone will be able to answer me. My laptop is where I do all of my work and play (not many games but things like surf the internet). I've never upgraded to a newer version of Windows, my dad always...

You know the page when you boot up Windows (vista or Win7) and it has "Welcome". What exactly is happening then? Is it loading services, drivers, certain startup process's? What?

Researcher show how to take control of a pc w/win 7 upon boot. Interesting article. Link Removed due to 404 Error However I see this is a different way. Since the administrator has a finite number of rights and "system" is root, well then one could use this to have full control of your pc...

As the title suggests, I want to dual boot Win7 and WinXP. I have Windows 7 installed already. So can somebody explain to me? Umm OK, i think i know what to do, but am i correct just to be safe? Shrink volume C: and give the partition 20GB Turn off comp making sure installation disk is in ^^...

Like Vista, Win 7 doesn't offer a way to change the stupid startup sound to something more appropriate. A Google search led me to this trick posted on this WinVistaClub forum. Link Removed The method described seems to work for Win 7 as well. To avoid permission issues with replacing a system...

I recently had a new system built running a RAID array using two WD 250GB SATA drives, Vista Home Premium, Intel duo core 3.1GHz processor, 4GB mem, ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard. I was trying an ATI Radeon HD 4670 video card and when installing the Vista drivers, the system froze and I had to shut...

Is it possible to view ,real time ,the boot process both before and after log-in?If so how?:confused: