1. The article [310353] describes how to disable common startup programs, settings, and drivers to troubleshoot issues that is known as clean booting when logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group.
2. The article [316434] discusses how to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting that is designed to isolate a performance problem. To perform clean-boot troubleshooting, you must take a number of actions and then restart the computer after each action (to test whether the preceding action affected the problem).
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4. The article [315222] discusses several Safe Boot options that load a minimal set of drivers to start Windows so that the registry can be modified or load or remove drivers.
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I have a small desktop machine and upgraded to XP, after allowing automatic updates, my network card is no longer recognized, Not enough resources. I then deleted several updates and it returned. Later, the automatic updates caught me again and I once again deleted updates using the program add/delete function. After doing so the last time, the machine will no longer boot XP. It starts, then fails. Safe mode and all other options also fail. How do I restore this thing to sanity and get it booted without starting over completely? Any thoughts on the resources issue? Thanks...

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