-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Safe Mode Freeze

I'm really surprised to hear that your sidebar is trying to load in Safe 
Mode.  Maybe that's normal for Vista, but it shouldn't be doing that in my 
opinion.  Safe Mode should only load up what's needed to run the OS and 
exclude just about everything else for troubleshooting purposes.  The 
sidebar certainly isn't needed for the OS to run and is probably what's 
causing the system to freeze in this case.

See if you can locate any info on turning off the Sidebar while in Safe 
mode.

Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tempting2taanzaa" <tempting2taanzaa@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Safe Mode Freeze


> Hi:
>
> I have an interesting problem.  My laptop boots fine (normally) in normal
> mode.  However, when booting into safe mode it will freeze.  I have waited
> for a few minutes and know it is frozen as the cursor is frozen, the time 
> in
> the taskbar is not moving and the sidebar gadgets (cpu and memory monitor)
> are not moving.  The only way to get a response is to do a hard shut-down
> using the power button then reboot.  I have not tried rebooting into safe
> mode again because I am afraid of getting the same response again.  I 
> tried
> booting into safe mode sometime ago to do a Malwarebytes scan because I
> thought I had an infection from a webpage I visited from a Google search
> that brought up an invitation to download Vista Antivirus 2009.  I did do 
> an
> antivirus scan locally and online (in normal mode) and a Malwarebytes scan
> in normal mode and no viruses/malware was found.  But, it did reveal the
> problem of starting in safe mode.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. 

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