wnwilson

When I start XP, it hangs every time just after the background image is loaded and before the desktop icons/task bar are loaded. I can hit Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up the task manager, then close the task manager and it will finish with normal startup. No error messages in the event logs whatsoever.

OK, it is not a USB keyboard. It is an AMD Athlon 64. Not sure about safe mode. I'll check. I am using a network and the machine is connected to a router. I'll try the mod's to the boot.ini. I was wondering if there was a way I could see what was going on. I'm a UNIX guy. XP is one of them thar' foreign thangs!

The system is basically idle. (Idle process is 97-98%)