I have a question about Speed up the Start Menu:

speeding up the start menu. I did what was advised in this article, and now Windows XP continues to boot, then immediately shut down, then boot again, shut down again, in a never-endng cycle. I can't even get to the registry to remove the entry. help!!!

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Have you tried restarting in Safe Mode, or to last known good configuration?


On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 9:27 am, Ann Miller wrote:
>I have a question about Speed
>up the Start Menu:

speeding up the start menu. I did what was advised in
>this article, and now Windows XP continues to boot, then immediately shut down, then
>boot again, shut down again, in a never-endng cycle. I can't even get to the registry
>to remove the entry. help!!!
>
>

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It won't let me boot using F8 (Safe Mode) or F1 (Bios). No matter what I try, I can't boot to anything other than Windows XP, which reboots itself continuously. Any other suggestions?


On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:28 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>Have you tried restarting in Safe Mode, or to last known good configuration?
>
>

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Getting into the BIOS has nothing to do with the OS, it's a matter of getting the 
timing right. It's easiest to just start hitting the button repeatedly until something 
happens. Getting into Safe Mode is a different matter. Again you should hit F8 repeatedly, 
but it's common for people not to be able to get into Safe Mode with XP using the 
F8 key. If you can't then you're somewhat in trouble. You can try to do a repair 
re-installation:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

but that will mean booting from your CDROM, and you'll probably have to get into 
the BIOS to do that.






On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:51 am, Ann Miller wrote:
>It won't let me boot using F8 (Safe Mode) or F1 (Bios).  No matter what I try, I 
>can't boot to anything other than Windows XP, which reboots itself continuously. 
> Any other suggestions?
>
>

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I finally got into the BIOS and changed the boot sequence so that it would boot from the cd-rom drive. I inserted my original Windows XP cd, restarted the computer, and I get nothing. The screen is blank, nothing loads.


On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:56 am, Ricer46 wrote:

>Getting into the BIOS has nothing to do with the OS, it's a matter of getting the 
>timing right. It's easiest to just start hitting the button repeatedly until something 
>happens. Getting into Safe Mode is a different matter. Again you should hit F8 repeatedly, 
>but it's common for people not to be able to get into Safe Mode with XP using the 
>F8 key. If you can't then you're somewhat in trouble. You can try to do a repair 
>re-installation:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341
>
>but that will mean booting from your CDROM, and you'll probably have to get into 
>the BIOS to do that.
>
>

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