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XP Pro Splash Screen Hang
Averatec laptop running XP Pro SP3. Has been sluggish, but yesterday it just stopped booting at all. It hangs on the splash screen with the little dots moving from left to right. After 10 minutes the screen goes black and will no longer respond. All safe mode options eventually get me to a...- boweasel
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Disk Read Error
Running (or rather, WAS running) Windows XP Professional SP2. One day last week the machine began to run VERY slowly, and thinking I might have picked up something, I attempted to run Spybot S&D. I was just barely able to open the tool when the PC shut down. When it restarted I got the DOS...- boweasel
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- Replies: 44
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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HP Color Laserjet 1600 - automatically deleted
A friend has an HP Color Laserjet 1600 and she asked me to have a look at why it wasn't printing. I clicked on the printer icon in the control panel which brought up the printer. When I right clicked on the printer, it displayed the words 'paused - deleting'. I un-paused the printer, the...- boweasel
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- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
