You click on safe mode and then you should see the screen scroll quickly as
various drivers are loaded. If you can see this safe mode is loading.
However, I have to agree with Alec safe mode doesn't load particularly fast
so give it some time. If it is going to hang it usually does so when loading
drivers and you will see the list of drivers scrolling up the screen, so if
it crashes (hangs) it will stop at at particular driver that it cannot load.
If you still can't access safe mode then you might consider a 'repair
install' (see this link from my website:
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how...dows_xp_in.htm )
This, of course, is assuming you have a full copy of the XP CD. If you only
have a manufacturer's recovery disc then you may have to resort to a
complete install, in which case you will loose all your data, so I hope you
have backups of all your important data?
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"boot.ini settings" <bootinisettings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A0AF9340-D08B-40AE-8FCD-D2AED0233A12@microsoft.com...
> John - Thanks for your reply. When i say safe mode i can see Windows
> loading
> and it goes to black blank screen in 2 sec.. it just hung there ...it is
> not
> taking me to desktop at all to change startup setting from command
> prompt...
>
> "John Barnett MVP" wrote:
>
>> If it is asking you to start in Safe Mode then do so and then change the
>> boot.ini options back. In safe mode click the start button then click
>> Run.
>> In the run dialogue box type 'msconfig' (without the quotes) and press
>> OK.
>> When msconfig window opens, click the Boot tab and remove the 'tick' mark
>> next to the 'safe mode' option and then click OK. Now restart your PC and
>> you should be back to normal.
>>
>> All you really have to do is trace your steps backward whatever you did
>> when
>> you edited the boot.ini file just go back in safe mode and undo it.
>>
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>> Associate Expert
>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>
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>> "boot.ini settings" <boot.ini settings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in
>> message news:15B697A5-FC20-4C02-8229-80852C2BDFBB@microsoft.com...
>> > i changed the boot.ini to start in safe mode and restarted machine. I
>> > dont
>> > see windows logo loading instead its asking me whether it needs to
>> > start
>> > in
>> > safe mode or safe mode with command prompt or start with last good
>> > configuration. If i select either one.. i am getting blank page.... its
>> > not
>> > showing windows start menu.. nothing.. its just blank.... can one of
>> > you
>> > please help? i have windows xp home edition...
>>
>>
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