Safe Mode is a bare bones mode in which Windows is running on as few
processes as possible to hopefully allow troubleshooting. If you are still
having the kind of problems that you are in Safe Mode then I agree with Mr.
Galen that repair install, new install, or his suggestion to try System
Recovery are your best options. What I would try first is to try the command
chkdsk /f to check your disk which may require a reboot and then use
cmd.exe to open a command Window and then use the command sfc /scannow to
start System File Checker which may ask you for your install disk. If you
have not run a malware scan for viruses lately you can use Sysclean from
Trend Micro to run in Safe Mode. Sysclean does not need to be installed.
Just download Sysclean and the latest pattern file to a common folder and
you can run Sysclean from the command prompt from that folder. The pattern
file will however need to be unzipped or extracted first. --- Steve

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp --- link to Sysclean and
pattern file. Be sure to read sysclean.txt.


"alwaysneedhelp" <alwaysneedhelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1639B61D-29D7-4428-AB48-7900A11DCEC2@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the responses. I did check the Event Viewer and there was a
> message that Safe Mode could not be started. I will try again and wait
> longer after I get what appears to be a locked in screen. When I get that
> screen, neither the mouse nor the keyboard work and Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't
> work
> either.
>
> I haven't tried any of the other Safe Modes since the anti-spyware
> specified
> to use the "Safe Mode" only in order to run their program.
>
> As I go through the process of Safe Mode I get a screen asking me to click
> Yes or No but the screen appears for one second only ands if I don't click
> immediately it disappears and the process continues on its own.
>
> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>
>> Are you able to logon normally?? If so look in the logs via Event Viewer
>> to
>> see if anything is recorded as an error/warning that may help explain the
>> problem. Also give it some time. I have on occasion walked away from a
>> computer that I though was frozen and came back half hour later to se
>> that
>> it no longer is frozen. What happens when you pres
>> control-alternate-delete
>> in Safe Mode? --- Steve
>>
>>
>> "alwaysneedhelp" <alwaysneedhelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news1EDD01B-56BB-4233-ABA7-B538BBC6F240@microsoft.com...
>> >I have been trying to use Safe Mode. I do everything I've been
>> >instructed
>> >to
>> > do. I get to the screen where it says to click on administrator and I
>> > do.
>> > I
>> > then get to the screen to click yes to continue to safe mode. When I
>> > click
>> > OK, the screen indicates safe mode but just remains there - black and
>> > white
>> > screen - heading on top of "safe Mode Microsoft XP, etc. It says Safe
>> > Mode
>> > at
>> > the bottom corners of the screen but NOTHING happens. The mouse doesn't
>> > work
>> > and the screen just stays at that spot.
>> >
>> > How can I fix this to get into Safe Mode?
>>
>>
>>