Computer freezes on Startup but safe mode works fine?

Question

Computer on startup freezes, I cant even sign in. It will either get to the logon screen and freeze or windows will boot but randomly freeze. The caps lock or Num lock doesnt even work. If I can sign in right before boot it has a little blue box around the pointer and it completely freezes.

Answer 1

Okay, close to what the other fellow said.



Enter Safe Mode.

Click the start button (or windows button) on the taskbar.

Go to Run or Click in the search bar if there's one.

Type in Msconfig. A window with several tabs will pop up. Click the one labeled startup.

There will be a list of things with checkboxes. Uncheck all of them EXCEPT your antivirus and firewalls, these should be left on.

What this does is disables everything that loads on start up. This normally helps the computer turn on easier. I suggest running a virus scan in safe mode if you can, as well as defragmenting and running a disk cleanup.



To run disk cleanup or defragmenting:

Open the "My Computer" section

Right click on C: and go to properties.

Go to the Tool tab on this and there you have it. Run a defragmentation by going to defragment and clicking defragment.

There's either disk-cleanup or error-checking, click on whichever one of these you see and it will run its little process, and then most likely ask to continue on restart, which you should immediately do.



Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In order to fix computer freezing at startup, you must first boot your CPU up in safe mode. This is done by tapping F8 as soon as your start your system.



Once in safe mode you can attempt to fix the problem. If you don’t feel like going to the computer repair shop or buying a new system, the next best thing is to scan your computer with a registry repair program.



Computer freezing comes from errors within the Windows registry. I would recommend cleaning it up. You can perform a free scan at:



http://www.registry-clean-up.net

Answer 3

Safe Mode - login



1) Start - Run - msconfig

2) Click - Startup Tab

3) Disable everything

4) Reboot



You should be fine! If not - you have other issues.

Answer 4

Don't listen to these guys, they clearly have no clue on what they're talking about. I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. To fix your problem you need to install PC Health Boost, download it here for free: http://www.healthboostpc.com



It's very light and it's the only antivirus/cleaner with a 99.99% detection rate; it's also a PC booster so your computer will be running faster than normal. Install it, hit run and problem solved. It shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes.

Answer 5

i had this concern while i replaced into experimenting with workstation i had tried each and every userstyle and userscript there is and mozilla grew to become corrupt as quickly as I uninstalled it and each document linked with it workstation freed up