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Max de Winter - 28 Apr 2006 22:50 GMT

Continual loading?

I have a new computer with windows xp. It is operating very weil apart from
one occasion. The computer loaded windows and everything was there -
background, icons, toolbars etc. The only problem was that it appeared to
continue to load as the yellow light did not go off on the front of the
computer? I waited and waited and the only way I could stop it was to turn
off the computer by holding the 'on' button in for a few seconds. When I
tried it again everything was OK.

Can somebody tell me if there is a fault here?

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Xeno - 29 Apr 2006 01:39 GMT

It is not advisable to shut down your computer in that way. (Only if it has
locked up). Shutting down like that could currupt your hive (registry) and
not allow you to boot without manually repairing the hive (or replacing it
with a backup). Sometimes windows continues to load and or accesses the swap
file. Quite normal really.

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Rick - 29 Apr 2006 02:00 GMT

Hi,

Could've been an autoupdate utility, indexing, or other program. Turning the
machine off that way is very dangerous and can corrupt the file system. You
should just let it run through when that happens.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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Max de Winter - 29 Apr 2006 08:51 GMT

Thank you

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