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August 26th, 2005 18:00
Horizontal green line on slow bootup
Ok I give... I am running Windows XP Home edition on a Dimension 2100.
I reinstalled the os via clean install.
Then put my firewall, virusscanner, Spybot Search and Destroy, and internet provider on. rebooted.
Then went online and validated it. Ran spybot ( since I had been online ). Clean machine.
Then put on the SP2 from cd. ( the reason for the total reinstallation of XP in the first place ) Don't get me started....
The problem is that during bootup there is a 1/2 inch horizontal green moving line where the next screen has the "copyright of Microsoft" at and the welcome screen stays for a minute then the desktop pic ( jpg type only) and it stays with just the picture and no toolbar or icons for over a minute. I used the bootvis, no change. I did a "fixboot" at the recovery console, which said it was successful. Rebooted. no change. Also there is no Internet Explorer in the add/remove programs list. What on earth is the matter with my baby and how do I fix him? Thanks for any help.
Message Edited by dazdnconfuzd2 on 08-26-2005 02:07 PM
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August 30th, 2005 03:00
I just thought I would come back and let you all know ( should you have this problem ) that I am happy to report that I got it running right simply by finding more information on those "services" that run in the background and shut off some new ones that came with SP2. The main culprit seems to have been that lovely "Security Center" . A wonderful concept gone bad. lol I can't list all that I shut down. They were resource hogs, which my system can't take. When I rebooted, no weird green bar and it came up so fast to the desktop and all icons and the toolbar were there immediately! Yes! Back to surfing finally. :-)
dazed no more