[engee182]

Hi. I have a custom made PC, not by my obviously. It's been fine for about 3 to 4 years now and just recently it started freezing on start-up. It loads fine but once I log into my own account, my PC freezes before I can even click an icon on the desktop.

[twinkiedooter]

Have you scanned your computer for spyware and viruses? Defragged your hard drive and cleaned up the registry? If you do these things your computer should work much faster.

[engee182]

Have you scanned your computer for spyware and viruses? Defragged your hard drive and cleaned up the registry? If you do these things your computer should work much faster.

I would if I could. The problem is the computer freezes before I can do anything at all. Literally. I click with the mouse and my computer freezes.

P.S. I'm obviously not typing this from my broken computer. I'm on a laptop.

[cogs]

Do you have another user account? Try logging into it. If you can get into safemode, log into the administrator's account. Don't know what op. sys. You're using.

[engee182]

do you have another user account? try logging into it. if you can get into safemode, log into the administrator's account. don't know what op. sys. you're using.

I tried logging into other accounts but all came up frozen. I'm using Windows XP.

[Couchcarrot]

Do you have an anti-virus program installed? My computer's AV program
Took over my computer completely for the first 10-15 minutes. After that,
It freed up so I could use it.

I solved my problem by changing the settings from the software's (AV program)
Controls from "Automatically Update," to "Let Me Manually Update." That way
I don't have to wait for them to get finished, but I update when I'm ready
To go offline.

That might be what keeps you from using it immediately.

[cogs]

Did you try 'safemode' by pressing f8 at boottime?

[mahsun]

How do u go on safe mod??

[theecho]

did you try 'safemode' by pressing f8 at boottime?

He stated by tapping f8 at boot.