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Laptop Hanging on Startup

  • 03-03-2010 3:30pm
    #1
    scout353
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭


    Laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro L300 156
    Vista Business

    Was working fine this morning at 8am but powered down and brought it to work where it failed to start except in safe mode.

    I have tried a system restore which came back as successful yet it still hangs in normal mode after Microsoft bar and Windows logo. I get a black screen and the mouse pointer is visible but nothing else. Tried leaving it for over an hour but nothing happens.

    The only change in recent days was installing Registry Convoy 2009 and also Virtual DJ. I did a Registry scan with this and cleaned a lot of crap but maybe this is the cause!

    The restore point was back before these programmes and they are no longer there. Interestingly there are no more restore points available which I found odd! Thought you could restore to any date in the past (though that was my XP experience and not Vista!)

    Any help would be gratefully appreciated!


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Do you have the vista disks? You could try and do a repair using the disks, it should find and fix most registry errors.


  • #3
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Google for the Vista black screen of death and you will get a number of suggestions on how to fix it.

    The only way I found that worked was to remove the laptop drive, plug it temporarily into another machine and reset all the NTFS permissions on the drive. YMMV.

    D.


  • #4
    scout353
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭scout353


    Ok, after two days of trying every fix I could find I was left with no option but to reinstall Windows back to Day 1!

    So I then upgraded to Windows 7 and am now trying to restore the programs I have been using!

    Downloaded the Office 2010 beta so hopefully everything will work with that!

    Thanks for the help!


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