Hello, I have been recently been experiencing problems when loading into my computer, I type the password, and about 6 times out of 10 the computer will "hang" at the "Loading your Personal Settings" stage of the login.
This causes me to have to restart (by pressing the button) and try again, often taking multiple tries just to log onto the computer.
Further, sometimes when it has loaded windows and successfully logged on, it will not load any applications when asked to do so (e.g. Itunes, Internet, Word etc.) or it will delay about 5minutes until it will load them up.

I am assuming there is something wrong with my computer (cant think what, I have scanned for spyware and viruses...although they dont always help).
Someone told me to change the login menus to not use the "Welcome Screen" but this had no effect.

Thanks in advance for any help given

It has been happening since I installed windows xp proffessional (about 4 weeks ago).
I only use norton antivirus.
Hope that helped

Its been happening since I installed Windows (I had to re install because it was playing up). If I was to do that again would the problem be solved?

Theres the problem internal damege very little bit commputer threaning or web sites.Open up the computer have a flash light out and lokk for scarshes.Then call windows and tell them where it's broken and send out for a new part.And don't tuch a part it can damege your computer.

Ok thanks very much, will do that.
Would you suggest any particular place to look in the computer? i.e motherboard, hard drive etc. (Excuse me, Im a computer novice compared to all you guys )