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Windows XP hangs on startup, "igfxtray.exe is corrupt"... ?
Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 1:53 pm
Posted by SheltieMom (2 messages posted) 

My system (XP Home) recently began to hang on startup while loading the system tray... 
only the clock and the volume icon load and then the system locks up and I have to 
completely turn off the computer to restart (cntrl+alt+del doesn't work).  After 
I turn the computer back on, scandisk runs and XP loads fine immediately following 
the system scan... the next time I try to logon, it locks up again!  On one occasion 
I saw an icon in the tray which read, "igfxtray.exe is corrupt"... what is this executable 
representing, is it the file for the system tray??

Does anyone know, or have a clue as to what the problem may be??  I don't want have 
to completely reload everything, is there a somewhat simple solution to this??

Any help is appreciated!!  Thanks!

SheltieMom
kimranton@comcast.net

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re: Windows XP hangs on startup, "igfxtray.exe is corrupt"... ?
Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 3:57 pm
Posted by XDonJuan (2 messages posted) 

Evening,
 You might want to try running  System File Checker to try to repair/replace the 
corrupt file.
 Go to start/ run and type in CMD and click OK. Then in the box that opens, type 
in  SFC/SCANNOW and press ENTER on the keyboard. SFC will run and automatically repair 
and/or replace crucial Windows files. It might ask you for your XP CD to extract 
a file from.
 After SFC completes just type   EXIT   in the box and click ENTER again. Then restart 
the computer and see if it fixed the problem.
                   Just my thought,
                          XDon

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