Do you have the luxury or doing a system restore to the point before you installed the Nokia program?

Thanks for your interest Osprey

 

I am on ME, so can do a System Restore, although some

other stuff has also been loaded since, so not sure whether it is

worth the hassle, Still thinking about it.

Incidentally, my set up is the same as yours,Dimension 4100 P3-933, Win ME

 

Message Edited by Ternard on 03-16-2004 04:10 AM

Message Edited by Ternard on 03-16-2004 04:12 AM

What happens if you boot to safe mode?

If you can not get to safe mode either try Dell's knowledge base article # 1041988...."How to restore a previous system configuration using the System Restore utility if I can not start MS ME either normally or in safe mode."

http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1041988

 

Message Edited by Sput on 03-16-2004 06:49 PM

Thanks for reply Sput.

I can get into Safe Mode o.k.  Tried it tonight.   Have looked at the Knowledge Base

Article, thank you for the link.  Because my son has loaded one or two programmes

recently, don't really want to go too far back.  I have done Scan Disk thorough, defragged,

cleaned Registry with Reg Cleaner, ran Ad-Aware etc, and deleted several start up items

in msconfig.  Machine is behaving better now, but still getting occasional start up freezing,

which I can overcome by pressing restore button.  Invariably o.k. the second time.  I can

live with it at present, but will have another look at msconfig start up.

Think I may have solved the problem.  No trouble for several days now.

The first indication I had of a freeze up was that System Tray Icons were

not loading.  I noticed that the first icon was a Card Reader plugged into USB

Hub.  I have ejected this, and no problems since.  Strange, but it seems to

have cured the problem.

When things freeze on startup, it's almost always because of a misbehaving driver. And I've seen several instances of these USB flash drives that have exhibited strange behavior like this. The games you installed may have created a conflict, so uninstalling and reinstalling the USB drive drivers may be required.

Thanks Osprey,

 

Will try that