I just installed VS.NET 2003 with a lot of difficulties... There was some kind of problem with the windows installer, so I had to do the following to make it work:
I rebooted after this, and it took me to the windows login screen just fine. After I click on my name to start my session, it takes it probably 15 minutes to load everything. The beginning is just a plain screen, then some icons start showing up, and eventually it loads. Even when it is fully loaded I can't click on anything or it will freeze up.


I thought about doing a repair install, but for some reason when I choose to boot from CD it says it's checking hardware components and then goes to a black screen. I dual boot with linux, so that could be the problem.

What exactly should I do? I was able to run CHKDSK, but that didn't help any. I would like to keep my stuff if it's possible!

Are you on a LAN? Disable LAN connection and then try again.

If you dont have any LAN then logon from another user account and see if its working fine.

I'm not on LAN and I don't have any other accounts. This is such a weird problem. I don't understand how those simply commands I ran would cause something like this. Nothing seems to fix it. I believe it's GOT to be some process running in the background created by this command.

I appreciate the response.

See if you can starttup in safe mode, and run system restore from there.