Hi. Could someone help me and hopefully explain what my PC did yesterday...After reboot, it went to a blank blue screen where "Please Wait" appeared at top left of screen...Some process started and dots appeared after this instruction to indicate progress....This lasted about 15 mins after which, the logon screen appeared and all seemed fine...What happened?? Hope someone knows ! thanks !

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Did u restart from just doing a virus scan or adware /spyware scan?
maybe it was completing....?

or..

if shutdown in correctly, maybe me a Check disk scan.....?

what were u doing before you rebooted?



 




On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 4:44 am, Tim B wrote:

>Hi. Could someone help me and hopefully explain what my PC did yesterday...After 

>reboot, it went to a blank blue screen where "Please Wait" appeared at top left 
of 

>screen...Some process started and dots appeared after this instruction to indicate 

>progress....This lasted about 15 mins after which, the logon screen appeared and 

>all seemed fine...What happened?? Hope someone knows ! thanks ! 

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Nothing at all...My pc had been logged on over night and I hadnt run any system or maintenance apps...From memory Outlook froze, so I rebooted and did so without having to force a restart...I run maintenance apps quite regularly and I've never seen this screen before


On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 6:10 am, TekNurd wrote:
>Did u restart from just doing a virus scan or adware /spyware scan?
>maybe it was completing....?
>
>or..
>
>if shutdown in correctly, maybe me a Check disk scan.....?
>
>what were u doing before you rebooted?
>
>
>
>

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Might have been CHKDSK running (are your precious files backed up ??), could have 
been automatic installation of updates, if you have that feature turned on.

You got so little information its really hard to be any more definite. I suppose 
I'd advise to give your PC a good thorough scan for viruses and spyware, look through 
the start-up list in msconfig for any unexpected items . . .  then relax.

BTW when you say "maintenance apps", what do you mean ?

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Thanks MartinM....by "maintenance apps" I just mean defrag, cleanup and virus scans"...Sorry for the confusion....All seems to be running just fine and the AVG virus scanner hasnt picked up nor has my spy-ware scanner...I do have auto-update switched on, so I suppose it must have been a microsoft update somewhat more involved than the usual...Thanks again for the reassurance!


On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 7:42 am, MartinM wrote:
>

>Might have been CHKDSK running (are your precious files backed up ??), could have
>been automatic installation of updates, if you have that feature turned on.
>
>You got so little information its really hard to be any more definite. I suppose
>I'd advise to give your PC a good thorough scan for viruses and spyware, look through
>the start-up list in msconfig for any unexpected items . . . then relax.
>
>BTW when you say "maintenance apps", what do you mean ?
>

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BTW I wouldn't run defragmentation too often. By its nature, NTFS does not have perceptibly 
poorer performance until files become very fragmented, and the process of 
defragging (involving moving lots - indeed maybe nearly all - of your files) carries 
an inevitable if small risk of file corruption.

In normal use you might get through the life of an XP PC without really needing to 
defrag and, if you really care, once a year may well suffice :-)

Its very different from FAT-based systems.

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