There are a lot of bad things that can happen to any Windows so this is why everyone keeps a backup of a working system. You have reached the end of what you can do so now you make sure any new files are safe then restore your system from your last full backup.
Everyone backups today. Right?
Bob
I have windows xp on a dell dimension e521. Yesterday it went black (except multiple cursors were visible) and froze on me so I hit ctrl-alt-del a few times with no visible result so I turned machine off with on/off button.
Then turned it back on but it hung on the starting windows splash screen with the horizontal dots just continuing to go forever. I finally (after 30 minutes) turned it off with button again and then back on. This time it went into a black screen where it asked me to choose which safe mode I wanted or restore to when it last worked.
I tried restoring but no difference. I tried safe modes and they work (that's what I'm using right now) but I don't know what to do in safe mode. I tried system restore to a few different dates before I had the problem but they all failed except yesterday so I went with yesterday but when I reboot it still hangs on start screen.
Am lost, am clueless, need help, thanks.

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