safe mode won't load

I was having trouble defragging because something was
hitting the hard drive, so I decided to boot my laptop in
Safe mode. When I used the f8 key to go to safe mode, the
blank desktop loaded, then the system hung. CTl/alt/del
produced a completely blank task manager screen. I hit
restart and a completely blank "this program is not
responding" button comes up.

Once, instead of hanging it gave me the "error in
explorer.exe you must reinstall windows" screen. The
system boots and runs in normal mode.

war17
Thu Feb 19 12:38:15 CST 2004

Try hitting the F5 key.

--
Warren
For additional help, post in
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"Sharon Wertz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1266101c3f707$0ae83e10$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I was having trouble defragging because something was
> hitting the hard drive, so I decided to boot my laptop in
> Safe mode. When I used the f8 key to go to safe mode, the
> blank desktop loaded, then the system hung. CTl/alt/del
> produced a completely blank task manager screen. I hit
> restart and a completely blank "this program is not
> responding" button comes up.
>
> Once, instead of hanging it gave me the "error in
> explorer.exe you must reinstall windows" screen. The
> system boots and runs in normal mode.

Sharon
Fri Feb 20 05:10:12 CST 2004

I can get into safe mode, it comes up with the safe mode
screen, but hangs with a completely blank desktop. Task
manager is empty. Have to power down to recover.
>-----Original Message-----
>Try hitting the F5 key.
>
>--
>Warren
>For additional help, post in
>http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInternetExplorerorWindowsME/h
omepage
>
>"Sharon Wertz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:1266101c3f707$0ae83e10$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I was having trouble defragging because something was
>> hitting the hard drive, so I decided to boot my laptop
in
>> Safe mode. When I used the f8 key to go to safe mode,
the
>> blank desktop loaded, then the system hung. CTl/alt/del
>> produced a completely blank task manager screen. I hit
>> restart and a completely blank "this program is not
>> responding" button comes up.
>>
>> Once, instead of hanging it gave me the "error in
>> explorer.exe you must reinstall windows" screen. The
>> system boots and runs in normal mode.
>
>
>.
>