http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: windows wont go past blue start screen en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:39:30 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-wont-go-past-blue-start-screen#post-24040 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:17:48 +0000 butchiedog 24040@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hey,</p> <p>Have you tried a complete power off &#38; on, rather than just a Restart? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-wont-go-past-blue-start-screen#post-22450 Sat, 03 May 2008 03:08:41 +0000 thejude 22450@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I had just uninstalled works from older desktop, it prompted to re-start &#38; when it did re-start it goes as far as the blue windows xp screen &#38; wont go any further, if I do CTRL ALT DEL, the desktop background comes up with no icons to shortcuts , the task manager comes up but it wont respond to anything.<br /> I have tried safe mode to try &#38; do system restore through task manager but I still cant get it to do anything.<br /> PLEASE HELP, its a friends computer &#38; I'm panicking.............. </p>