Buttonclicker » boot welcome screen windows 7 win7 http://www.buttonclicker.com Techno Button Master Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:04:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows 7 startup problems http://www.buttonclicker.com/2009/07/31/windows-7-problems/ http://www.buttonclicker.com/2009/07/31/windows-7-problems/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:45:59 +0000 J http://www.buttonclicker.com/2009/07/31/windows-7-problems/ I was playing grid when the power dropped out.. booted and windows was stuck at the welcome screen.. reset a couple times. Same.

welcome-screen

A nice extended welcome, Thanks Microsoft

There is nothing different from before the power failure so probably broken file or something…

Booted into safe mode..(f8)

  1. Cmd
  2. Chkdsk c: /f
  3. Yes (do it on next reboot)
  4. Reboot
  5. Let windows scan
  6. let windows reboot
  7. Fixed
  8. Back to grid

If that failed I would look at the event log and work my way backwards..

It was most likley related to this setting

HDD_CACHE

Enable for Faster Disks & Data Loss

It mentions it in the help section, Basically ticking these will give you more performance but at the cost of reliable data.. in my case I am not running exchange server on this machine so there is nothing I will loose except time.. in this case, around 10minutes

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After some thoughts about this. I wonder how can such small and possibly anoying problems occur in the RTM version of Windows 7? or is it just me.. lets hope for Microsofts sake.

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