re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts Friday, August 27, 2010 at 7:56 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan Masterman (462 messages posted) Hi Bill, In the context you describe, the likelihood that you (or anybody) would be able to identify all of the possible problems, with any degree of certainty, is minimal. Your quickest, most effective, and certainly safest solution is to reformat you hard drive, re-instal your operating system and your applications, and restore your data from backup (you do have a backup, right?) Unless, of course, you have either a clone or an image of your hard drive which you are confident is clean and good, in which case you could repair the damage in less than an hour.     Written in response to: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (bill s: Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm) Responses to this message: re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (bill s: Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 2:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (bill s: Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 7:12 pm) re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (Johnb33: Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 8:09 pm) re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (bill s: Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 8:45 pm) re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (Alan Masterman: Fri, Aug 27, 2010, 7:56 am) re: Blue Screen 30 seconds after Windows starts (bill s: Sat, Aug 28, 2010, 2:04 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum