Comp Freezes At Startup

#1 luvbug

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Posted 27 October 2005 - 12:15 PM

You guys/gals helped me so much with my other problem......so Im back!! LOl

I have Windows ME.........sometimes when I turn my PC on, it will freeze up........lately I have noticed it does it during the download of Trillian........it doesnt do it every time.I dont think its Trillian cause it done it a couple times before I started using Trillian.

Any advice/suggestions on what I need to do?? A friend at work told me to go to the windows site and theres a patch to download that will fix it, but I couldnt find what she was talking about.

Any help/suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Lisa

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 01:43 AM

In IE go to Toos>windows update. Follow the on screen prompts. Which anti-virus and anti-spyware do you run? What is listed in MSCONFIG>startup

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#3 luvbug

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:35 AM

I have Norton 2005 and I use Ad-Aware and Spybot.

Thanks for replying.

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 08:06 AM

Can you describe where exactly in the boot up process it freezes? Does it get all the way to the Desktop and it is only when you try to do something that it freezes? The fact that it also hangs with Trillian may just be coincidental.

#5 luvbug

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 08:48 AM

Everything on my desktop is there....the Trillian box is loading all its stuff and everything just freezes.....my mouse wont move.....I have to do an improper shutdown.

Its driving me nuts!!!!! LOL

#6 IsMe

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 09:25 AM

luvbug, on Oct 28 2005, 08:48 AM, said:

Everything on my desktop is there....the Trillian box is loading all its stuff and everything just freezes.....my mouse wont move.....I have to do an improper shutdown.
Its driving me nuts!!!!! LOL

In that case ... couple of things to try. 1) Uninstall Trillian and reinstall it. Or 2) Prevent Trillian from loading at Startup, and after all the other startup stuff loads, then manually load Trillian.