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Problem after disabling programs Diagnostic screen appears at startup

#1 CherB

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 01:11 AM

My startup was sluggish so I disabled some of the programs, and now every time I start the computer I get the black diagnostic screen asking if I want to start in Windows XP mode or recovery. Windows actually starts before I can specify, but I'm wondering which of the disabled programs is causing this particular problem (and how to identify it), and if there is any way I can stop that screen from appearing without having to go back to the original settings?

Thanks

#2 garmanma

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 09:59 AM

Try going into safe mode and undo your mistakes there

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#3 CherB

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 01:08 PM

I don't think that would help until I know exactly what mistakes I made. All I did was disable some programs, so I have no idea why I'm getting the diagnostic screen at startup. I assume it's from one of the programs I disabled, but I don't know how to go about pinpointing the specific program(s) causing the problem.

#4 garmanma

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 03:14 PM

Exactly how did you disable the programs?
If it was msconfig, go into safe mode and open msconfig and recheck everything

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#5 CherB

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Posted 31 July 2009 - 01:26 AM

Thanks for your help. I found out that the problem was due to a wrong path in the boot.ini section, which is odd as I only
unchecked the programs I didn't want in the startup section (never even clicked in the boot.ini tab).