1. If System Restore fails to boot satisfactorily,
2. Reinstallation of Windows would take less than one
hour, even if we do never knew the cause of this malfunction.
(But knowing the cause would not mean we also knew
its cure.)
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Have you tried running the XP in safe mode?
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SteveH