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Please HELP! When I turn on or restart my PC, the computer goes acts like it will start up. After it shows the XP startup screen it goes black. The pointer centers itself on screen and I can still control it but I cant do anything. I have attempted starting in safe mode but I cannot. I also attempted putting the recovery disk in then restarting but it does nothing. Any suggestions would be awesome!
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Please HELP! When I turn on or restart my PC, the computer goes acts like it will start up. After it shows the XP startup screen it goes black. The pointer centers itself on screen and I can still control it but I cant do anything. I have attempted starting in safe mode but I cannot. I also attempted putting the recovery disk in then restarting but it does nothing. Any suggestions would be awesome!
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yes. I have a recovery disk and I even attempted to reboot using it...no luck.

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try unplugging it from the electial outlet for a few minutes
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most XP pcs come configured to boot from the HD first. YOU need to set system bios too boot from the Disk Drive first. Then try to reboot with disk. Its a malware problem i think were a file makes your back ground an active desktop and links a black image to your back ground and you cant do anything. Did you regularly run spyware checks etc?
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I know I may seem like an idiot...but can you tell me how to go in the bios and change from HD to disk drive first?

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most XP pcs come configured to boot from the HD first. YOU need to set system bios too boot from the Disk Drive first. Then try to reboot with disk. Its a malware problem i think were a file makes your back ground an active desktop and links a black image to your back ground and you cant do anything. Did you regularly run spyware checks etc?
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To adjust hardware bio, press F1 or "Del" key when you first turn on the coomputer and heard a beep sound. From there, go to Boot, adjust the setting to have CD-ROM ordered before HardDrive. Then select "Save before Quit" and restart the computer.
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Interesting, I'm having the same start-up problem. I'm thinking it's either the "Background as active Destop" as referred above or logging in as a corrupted user setting. I'm having the computer logged in automatically as a default user because there is only one User on that computer, so I'm not quite sure whether it's stuck before or after user logging in. Anyone know how to fix the startup setting from the command prompt. Please help!!! Much appreciated.
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My in-shop staff has been getting a splurge of similar problems lately from the active desktop (and a few web content desktops). I Wonder....

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right click.. prop's then look under Web tab. there will be one for back ground as active desktop.
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