My computer was taking a full five minutes to reboot every time, in spite of having mega everything. Someone told me I had too many things running and should disable some of them. I went through & THOUGHT I was being extremely careful, checking to see what the services were and what programs were dependent upon them. But after rebooting I cannot get my computer to do anything. It boots up and freezes up almost immediately. I can click on "my computer" and thats as far as I get before it freezes. I cannot even turn it off or restart it, I have to turn off the power strip to shut it down.

Somebody PLEASE HELP!!! I have tax info on there that needs to be submitted by Monday 10/16/06! I cannot believe my computer would allow me to change a function that would essentially "kill" it - GOOD GRIEF!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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It sounds like you forgot to provide us with a LOT of detail...

What is your operating system (XP, ME, 2000, 98, 95, NT, 3.x... )
How much RAM does your computer have?
How much Hard Drive Space does your computer have?
What is the processor speed?
Do you have any antivirus protection? Spyware protection? Adware protection?
When did the problem start?
And do you have a floppy drive?Before Windows starts, press F8 and choose 'last KNOWN good configuration'

Scan for viruses, spyware and trojan horses.Sorry, I have Windows XP Home Edition. I'm at work & don't remember my RAM, GIG, HERTZ or any of that off hand except that it was way more than I would ever need. I have AOL which has some spyware program & I often run Adaware. This problem began immediately after I disabled several services and then rebooted. I assumed it was related to something I disabled.What services did you disable and why?

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A Windows service provides functionality to the operating system and user accounts regardless of whether anyone is logged into a system. Windows XP comes with around four dozen services enabled by default, INCLUDING ones that many people consider superfluous like Remote Registry, Alerter, and SSDP DISCOVERY (Universal Plug and Play). A question many Windows administrators commonly have is therefore, which services can I safely disable? [highlight]What if I told you that for at least basic functionality like Web surfing and application execution, Windows doesn’t need any services?[/highlight] In fact, you can also do those things without system processes like Winlogon.exe, the interactive logon manager, and Lsass, the local security authority subsystem.

My computer was taking a very long time to start up & someone told me it was because of too many things running. I don't know exactly what I disabled, but I checked dependencies first and didn't disable anything that sounded like I could possibly need it. In fact, most of the items had no dependencies other than networking, remote access, or Windows Messaging, none of which I use at home. It just never ocurred to me that I could do something fatal, atleast not without a message saying something like "WARNING: If you disable this, you will never be able to use this computer again!" or "Are you sure? This can NEVER be undone".