Yes I can choose the "Last Good configuration" option in the safe mode, but the results are the same. Almost anything generates the now-hated "XYZ has encountered a problem and needs to close" Internet Explorer, Start/Run, fail for example.
This is Ron. We are sort of tag-teaming your problem.
Don't know who makes your harddrive (boot into the CMOS Setup and it should tell you) but most of them have a drive testing program on the maker's site. You download it then boot off the CD and it tests and sometimes repairs the harddrive.
There is also a memory test program works the same way:
Glad you are back in business. I'll be away from the computer over the holidays.
Good luck with Norton. If you can't get it running then try the free Avast. You will need to get rid of all traces of Norton or Symantec before it will be totally happy but usually just searching for Hidden and System folders with those names and deleting all you find will make it happy.
The bad news is that the startup disk to run windows diagnostics didn't work to run the diagnostics, however, it did let me get into the safe mode and run system restore to a date that apparently was before the problem started. I appear to be working properly again!
I may be back after I re-install Norton, since that was the first item to go out.
Good news, the start up disk you sent to make never worked as it said it would, but it did let me run system restore. I was able to go back to a config that worked, and appear to be OK now!
I may be back once I re-install Norton, since that was the first bit that went south, but for now...
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