Laptop Issue

[md28]

Well, my laptop appears to be not responsing after initial start up. It gets to the blue windows screen, just before transferring to desktop and then just sits there. Mouse moves fine and I have intermittant hd activity shown by flashing led, but it's just not booting up properly.

Recently been suffereing with adware/spyware etc, downloaded ad-aware and spybot to try and solve, but to no real avail. Internet Explorer kept loading up with systemnetsecurity or something as my homepage even though I'd tried to reset to another site. Could this be causing it not too boot up fully?

A mate has suggested about reinstalling windows, but I'm no tech wizard when it comes to this stuff! Any advice???

Model is Compaq Evo N1050v.

thanks,
mark

[MSG]

Can try and start in safe mode, if that helps you got to press F8 or may be F4 whilst booting and then choose safe mode and then start, once it starts in safe mode you can then try and start in normal mode hopefully the problem amy go away if not there others on Mig far more knowledgable than me who could tell you more.

[md28]

safe mode does exactly the same.??????????

[angryman]

Sounds like it's fooked....if you can get it to start in safe mode you can try sys restore, but if it won't boot to windows

[Violet]

Time for a new windows reinstall.

[mudcow007]

have you got a cd with xp on?

you could always put the cd in an try an do a repair but its clutching at straws really

is there any data that you want savign on the drive? if not dig otu all the cds that came with the lappy an flatten it an reinstall the o/s

[jav786]

Sounds like a hard drive fault or corruption of the operating system.

[md28]

XP reinstall sorted it!

Thanks for all the replies. Still got the bleeding spyware though!

[JoeyB]

Download ewido

www.ewido.com

Free to try for a couple of weeks, in that time you get the full version

[alex1981]

Ewido is quite good. Try that...if not download hijackthis.exe and paste the log

[bradsix]

Hi
Install and run Bitdefender 8 its free for 12 months...sorted out all my spy and malware etc...Then go to Trend house call it does an online check free of charge...very thorough. Let me know how you get on..

Cheers
bradsix

[philyirrell]

best way I found to get rid of spyware:

Click start, then run, type msconfig then hit enter. check the box labelled 'diagnostic startup' under the startup tab. reboot, then run adaware or similar - sometimes the spyware cannot be removed when it is running, this stops it starting up with windows. When done, you need to run msconfig again to set it back to normal starup