XP Problem
Would appreciate if someone has seen this and can help?
PC has XP with SP2 (old version, SP2 is added as download). Has been running fine for quite a while, but now if it is shut down (power failure etc) it will not complete the boot process, remains at the entry screen where the little blue thingies run across that little window. No beeps or anything and it seems content to do that for hours.
I can force it to start by manually shutting it down and restarting in safe mode, then do a restart and it goes into normal mode. It does not help to use system restore.
I think it is a Windows problem and am contemplating reinstalling XP but will that destroy my programs? Is there a way to find out what is wrong and fix just that?
Thanks in advance...