Prasad Thale

What about the users who purchased Windows Xp single user or multiuser licences? They will never give up Windows Xp. Windows Xp with SP3 is not as unsecure as Windows 98; so chances are that Microsoft will never be able to impress users to go for their current & future …

My acer laptop touchpad doesn`t work; but when I uninstall PS/2 mouse driver and restart or shutdown it works perfectly after next windows boot. I have re-intsalled Windows 7. Also when Windows instalation started touchpad was working; but when almost finished it stopped working.

Use vmware, preferably latest with vmware tools also installed. You can install in XP & virtualise Windows 7. Keep the Win7 image in Non-OS drive and with around 20 GB space for the virtual machine. Keep the virtual machine with multiple files; so you can keep a copy in pen …

Take backup of needed data from safe mode to non-OS data HDD partition and then format & install OS. Then scan the data drive with Ms Security essentials. An experienced sys admin will definitely find a workaround for the virus related data corruption; but no guarranty of fully functional OS …

Have you checked if IE also starts in safe mode?

I found quiet old post unsolved and find similar problem. Here is the solution. Start | Run | Type or paste: REGSVR32 /i BROWSEUI.DLL Click OK | Reboot This may work for IE also.

I assume you use Windows XP. Check startup programms using msconfig. Remove ticks of unwanted programs. Restart & apply tick in msconfig utility do not show option. Restart you PC is safe mode. Try Avg antivirus. If problem persist. Tell some one to take team viewer of ur system.

May be virus problem. Does your Antivirus shown any virus notification? Check msconfig first.

The user ownership issue due to virus problem. May too less page file error at user login startup. And nothing works later. Even check disk. Add local or the user on domain / workgroup as owner to the drive partition