Windows hangs around at startup

Keith

What errors appear in Event Viewer?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in
normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
which also appear in a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Keith wrote:
> I have a user who claims he has changed nothing, but his system has
> taken to having a wee rest at startup.
>
> It boots to the login screen fine (XP Pro connected to a 2003 Server
> network), but once you enter the login details it brings up the
> desktop without any icons, and just sits there with no disc activity
> for about 2 minutes, then goes on to finishing the boot up.
>
> Has anybody encountered this before? If so is there a fix? I have
> already checked for viruses etc..

The only error is in the Application section. It is:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1054
Date: 12/08/2008
Time: 12:43:24
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: LT140
Description:
Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network.
(The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ).
Group Policy processing aborted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


"Gerry" wrote:

> Keith
>
> What errors appear in Event Viewer?
>
> Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
> System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in
> normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
> which also appear in a previous boot.
>
> You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
> Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
> of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
> are important.
>
> A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
> click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
> button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
> Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
> the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
> Event Viewer.
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Keith wrote:
> > I have a user who claims he has changed nothing, but his system has
> > taken to having a wee rest at startup.
> >
> > It boots to the login screen fine (XP Pro connected to a 2003 Server
> > network), but once you enter the login details it brings up the
> > desktop without any icons, and just sits there with no disc activity
> > for about 2 minutes, then goes on to finishing the boot up.
> >
> > Has anybody encountered this before? If so is there a fix? I have
> > already checked for viruses etc..
>
>
>

Keith

See if any suggestions in this link applies:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1054&eventno=1393&source=Us...nv&phas

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Keith wrote:
> The only error is in the Application section. It is:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1054
> Date: 12/08/2008
> Time: 12:43:24
> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> Computer: LT140
> Description:
> Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
> network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be
> contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Keith
>>
>> What errors appear in Event Viewer?
>>
>> Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
>> System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last
>> boot in normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please.
>> Indicate which also appear in a previous boot.
>>
>> You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
>> Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
>> of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
>> are important.
>>
>> A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and
>> double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which
>> appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close
>> Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the
>> body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting
>> from
>> Event Viewer.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Keith wrote:
>>> I have a user who claims he has changed nothing, but his system has
>>> taken to having a wee rest at startup.
>>>
>>> It boots to the login screen fine (XP Pro connected to a 2003 Server
>>> network), but once you enter the login details it brings up the
>>> desktop without any icons, and just sits there with no disc activity
>>> for about 2 minutes, then goes on to finishing the boot up.
>>>
>>> Has anybody encountered this before? If so is there a fix? I have
>>> already checked for viruses etc..

I had this problem, but not on a network. I found two extra short cuts to
"search desktop" in "all users" programs and startup. They all checked
"outlook express" for msgs. I was getting a msg "Outlook Express can
compract..." each time I opened one of my accounts. I don't use OE, so I
should not have had the message.
Once I deleted the two short cuts, msg went away and I could startup my
computer without having to turn it off and on a few times to get through to
the system (pull plug). The relates to "Windows Search Desktop 4.0"
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Thanks


"Keith" wrote:

> I have a user who claims he has changed nothing, but his system has taken to
> having a wee rest at startup.
>
> It boots to the login screen fine (XP Pro connected to a 2003 Server
> network), but once you enter the login details it brings up the desktop
> without any icons, and just sits there with no disc activity for about 2
> minutes, then goes on to finishing the boot up.
>
> Has anybody encountered this before? If so is there a fix? I have already
> checked for viruses etc..
>