Hi,

I have recently performed a fresh install of Win XP professional. I did
everything perfect from scratch i.e. long NTFS format first prior to
installing Windows. After this I installed the following applications:
Norton 360, Easy CD Media Creator 10, Mozilla Firefox, Limewire.

The PC worked okay for a day or so. But today in the morning I tried to
boot it and it froze straight after I logged in. I attempted to boot the PC
3 or 4 times after and it was freezing up prior to the login screen.
Eventually I logged in and noticed the following error in event viewer:
"The SessionLauncher service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified"
I clicked on the link for more information and in the file name it
referenced "netevent.dll" and under source it referenced "Service Control
Manager"

I am totally confused as this is a fresh install.

Could you please advise
Thanks, Tim

RE: Windows XP freezes on startup by eckrichco

eckrichco
Sat Apr 26 19:09:01 PDT 2008

A fresh install would be booting to xp cd,also,one must delete the partition,
create one,then xp formats the hd.If you did not delete,then a clean install
was not performed....

"Tim" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently performed a fresh install of Win XP professional. I did
> everything perfect from scratch i.e. long NTFS format first prior to
> installing Windows. After this I installed the following applications:
> Norton 360, Easy CD Media Creator 10, Mozilla Firefox, Limewire.
>
> The PC worked okay for a day or so. But today in the morning I tried to
> boot it and it froze straight after I logged in. I attempted to boot the PC
> 3 or 4 times after and it was freezing up prior to the login screen.
> Eventually I logged in and noticed the following error in event viewer:
> "The SessionLauncher service failed to start due to the following error:
> The system cannot find the path specified"
> I clicked on the link for more information and in the file name it
> referenced "netevent.dll" and under source it referenced "Service Control
> Manager"
>
> I am totally confused as this is a fresh install.
>
> Could you please advise
> Thanks, Tim