BobbyFowler
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My laptop was running fine until yesterday. It's 3 years old. It's running Windows XP. The problem now is that when it starts up, it only gets to the Windows "Welcome" page. It plays that little jingle, the "Welcome" flicks up & it just stalls. I've tried the on/off switch. That brings me either to Hibernate or switches it off. If it goes to hibernate & I restart it makes no difference. If I switch it on & off it makes no difference. With the hibernate option you can press F8 for booting up. One starts a fresh restart, the other lets you continue as normal. Neither works. I've also tried Ctrl, Alt, Delete when the screen is stuck. I've gone this way to restart the computer but no joy at all. I've got my info backed up but am a bit worried at this stage as I've got some important programs on the computer. Does anyone have any idea how I can sort this out? I'm in San Francisco at the moment, moving onto Oz so there's no point recommending any of the Computer Places at home. If I've no joy I'll check some of the spots here.