[Shady]

I am working (trying to) on my friend's computer. They have XP Home. When I go to boot up, everything goes the way it should. However, once the user account starts loading, after about 15-30 seconds, it automatically resets. Does this in a constant loop. I managed to enter MSCONFIG once and have it boot in safe mode. While I was there, I went into the admin account and deleted a ton of useless apps. So I went to restart, and I'll be damned if it didn't help at all. I'm guessing now that it's in the user account portion of XP. Is there a way I can boot into safe mode without entering MSCONFIG? Once I get it running long enough, I need to install HiJackThis and do all that fun stuff. But for now, I need to get the computer running long enough (without restarting) and then fun can begin. Thank you in advance for the help!

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Hold down F8 when you power up the PC. This will give you a startup menu which includes safe mode. Try "safe mode with networking" if plain "safe mode" won't boot into Windows.

[pip22]

Hold down F8 when you power up the PC. This will give you a startup menu which includes safe mode. Try "safe mode with networking" if plain "safe mode" won't boot into Windows.

[Shady]

cool, it worked. ok, now my next question. would it be better to run hijackthis while in safe mode, or normal? sorry for the 20 questions, lol...

EDIT:

i was able to remove items that ad-aware/spybot found. yet, the computer im working on still does a constant loop of restarts. i thought it was a "QIC Assistant" program (required for InsightBB), so i delted it. that didnt solve anything. any ideas on what i can do, if anything?

Edited by Shady, 02 September 2006 - 11:59 AM.