startup issues

My computer was slower than normal to boot for a while, it would stay on the Welcome... page for about 12secs (a long time). I turned on verbose messages, and it turns out, its "preparing my desktop" on each boot. Two questions 1. What possible reasons could there be for such a thing? 2...

following the advice on this board, i moved my page file to a different drive, and since then, whenever i restart win 7, it begins with an error message saying that it made a temp page file because of the conditions at start up. first, why would it do this, especially when i pointed it to...

Problem: The windows doesn't boot. It gives me the first screen and goes directly to a blank black screen with a cursor. There are no options at this point but to hit ctrl-alt-del and restart the computer. After restarting, on the first screen, there's an option to enter BIOS setting by pressing...

Okay, I'm getting fed up with my Win7 RC installation already. I just clicked a program off the start menu, and after nearly an entire MINUTE of waiting for the app to launch, I found it had opened 3 times - Windows was responding so slowly that it kept the Start menu open after I had clicked it...

Hi, I recently downloaded Windows 7, and i already found my first problems (after 5 minutes of working on it): i can't start any program that uses UAC (so this means no regedit or anything) so what do i do?

Heya, Yesterday I shut off my PC all fine, went to bed, woke up and started up the computer again. When I started it however, nothing was working as it should. Everything goes fine, I can get into Windows 7 without any problem. But then my software starts loading. Nod32 starts up, OppenOffice...

HI all. topic is self explanitory. How do you make a bootable Windows 7 disk. I have the ISO files but when I try to make a disk it will not boot. Using UltraISO I was able to burn what I thought was a bootable disk, but on startup the screen just goes black and I';m stuck with a blinking cursor...

Guys, I would like to uninstall W7. I installed my W7 on Drive E in XP machine (drive C). For your info, Everytime I boot my computer, there are two choices of OS:, XP and W7. Unfortunately, in BOOT.INI in XP, there is no such a choice of W7 startup that I can delete. Any help will be...

I'm pretty sure no one else posted this so far, but i've recently i decided to check the box in a couple of gadgets "Always on Top" and on start-up, only a few of these gadgets end up on top until after i put them in focus. if it's any help, the gadgets are that are doing this are: "Control...

I have installed Win7 x64 several days ago and it worked very fine, but jesterday i did not "shutdown" my pc, but tried to send it to "sleep" instead. Damn! It is totally broken-down! When i first tried to start after this, i choose the "start normal" option", all i got was a black screen, so i...

I have windows vista and windows 7 installed on separete hard drives. Everytime I start my computer it starts windows 7. What do I have to do so that I can choose witch OS I want to boot?

Hi ... What to do if you installed XP and W7 on one hard drive with each OS having its own partition afterwards found W7 not to your liken and decided to remove the OS by formatting that partition , how do you get XP to load up normanly again ? Because after formatting that partition were W7 was...

ok i installed 7 as a dual boot with xp and i have some questions 1st is how do i get my gadgets to start with windows ? 2nd where are gadget settings ? when i search in start menu and click on anything to do with sidebar or gadgets nothing opens. 3rd i have had to go into task manager several...

So yeah I installed the Win7 beta, was going fine initially, then weird things started to happen. Had some hellish issues with my Creative sound drivers, but I managed to overcome them (mostly). Anyway, things went from bad to worse when Win7 kept crashing during startup (on the screen with the...

Since installing Windows 7 Beta everytime i log off, switch user, shut down, startup, or restart I get the black screen asking me if id like to start windows normally, or in safe mode. I always hit enter to start normally and it does what i had requested. This screen also appears before my pc...

I recently put windows 7 on another partition separate from my windows XP. So after the windows 7 installation, it put on a windows boot manager on the XP partition. When I select "earlier windows version" (or something on that grounds) to go to XP, it loads xp for a couple of seconds and BSOD...

I have started to update windows Windows Vista® Home Premium with the latest update from windows however when the computer restarted it says sometihg like: installing update 3 of 3 0% complete it appears to have finished, the logon screen flashes and then ... windows is shutting down. the...

Hi I have a rather wierd problem with booting my computer. Everytime i start up my laptop, it will go smoothly to the desktop, but frequently, it will "partially hang" there. my system tray does not load up, windows sidebar does not appear and no programs will be able to work. When i click...

I was on myspace.com and all the sudden a whole bunch of pop ups began to happen...i tried to close them but everytime i closed one two would pop up. If i didnt do nothing, they would just keep popping up with myspace.com pages. I just held the power button to turn it off and now that i turn it...

A recent update to Windows Defender (KB915597 Def.1.33.9770.6) is preventing my Calibration Loader from starting up when I start windows. As a result I have to restore to previous restore point every time I start my computer. Any ideas? Yakir