I have a dell 4500S with xp pro on it. Today it won't boot all the way. It comes to the logon screen and after you enter the user name and password and click OK it goes to a blue screen. No start button, taskbar, icons or anything normal. All that comes up is the box from Microsoft saying that windows explorer has experienced a problem, do you want to send a report. If you click out of that box, it goes back to just being a plain blue screen. There are no error numbers for me to look up, just plain blue. When I hit F12 for boot options, there is no option for Safe Mode. Any suggestions
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Does F8 get you into Safe Mode? Try Safe Mode, if you get in to it you can try using System Restore from there.
Have you tried another username at logon?
Try running ChkDsk /r from the Recovery Console.
How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP
An easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer due to corrupt registry.
This is a layman's version of Q307545 in simple language.
Have you tried another username at logon?
Try running ChkDsk /r from the Recovery Console.
How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP
An easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer due to corrupt registry.
This is a layman's version of Q307545 in simple language.
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