netbook hanging

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My netbook (Samsung nc10 running xp) currently is struggling to bring up my desktop & basically hanging on the 'loading your personal settings' page after login
It started fine this morning & closed down normally, tonight nadda

Any suggestions?

[trixical]

williredale said:

Have you got any other accounts on the netbook you could try and login as?

What operating system have you got on it?

Does it boot in safe mode (press F8 on start up)?

Thanks for the quick reply
Just my usual account & administrator

Windows xp

yes I can now boot it in safe mode, it appears my usual profile is corrupt, I'm just trying to copy my files off it

Is it going to be best to find the recovery cd & do that or can I potentially fix it without having to start from scratch?

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I've managed to create a new profile & pulled off the docs last night to my external hard drive but all the documents on that profile (which I've now deleted) still appear to be there taking up space,
I can't get into the user folder which is still ther or seem to delete them I just get the message can not access/something in the folder may be being used etc etc

?

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Thanks, had to do a full reset in the end anyway though as it was slower than a snail in dry cement