Try booting into Safe Mode and see if it boots that way. (Hold F8 or the Ctrl key down before the initial Windows ME splash screen, then select Safe Mode.) If it boots into Safe Mode, you know it is not anything wrong with Explorer.exe program, and it is most likely something wrong with one of the MSCONFIG Startup programs or a system driver. For example a virus may have infected your system and is crashing it.

If you can get into Safe Mode, first run System Tools - SCANDISK in normal mode, and then in Thorough mode (may take hours) to check the disk drive. Maybe run a manual virus scan and any other ADware/Spware scans that you have installed.

Then shutdown and try booting into normal mode again.

What you do next depends on what happens when trying to boot into Safe Mode and after running Scandisk.

Written in response to: Windows ME doesn't finish loading desktop... (toy: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 1:16 am) Responses to this message: re: Windows ME doesn't finish loading desktop... (Adam: Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 8:13 pm) re: Windows ME doesn't finish loading desktop... (Kailen: Monday, April 25, 2005 at 5:03 am)

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