# Windows XP problem starting up **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004 "2012-04-26T12:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/1 "2012-04-26T12:37:18Z")
I have an HP Mini that came with XP…its not quite a year old. When I restart it, a dos looking screen comes up with a progress bar of sorts at the bottom. It freezes right away …maybe 10% of the way to the end of the bar. I have to F8 in order to get past that problem. I haven’t shut it down for a couple of days now but will if I get some responses or suggestions of what else to look for or do. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/2 "2012-04-26T13:07:54Z")
F8 meaning safe mode? Install and run [Malwarebytes](http://www.malwarebytes.org/). ---
**Author:** ![CCYMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@CCYMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCYMan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/3 "2012-04-26T13:32:07Z")
It’s Obama’s fault, but good luck getting him to admit it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/4 "2012-04-26T15:41:17Z")
> [@CCYMan](#): > > It’s Obama’s fault, but good luck getting him to admit it. I didn’t know that he took computer classes in college or was tight with Steve Jobs back then. In fact I don’t know much about his college years… probably never will. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CCYMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@CCYMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCYMan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/5 "2012-04-27T13:15:06Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I didn’t know that he took computer classes in college or was tight with Steve Jobs back then. In fact I don’t know much about his college years… probably never will. 😃 Thank you for having a sense of humor. I had just come from a thread whose theme was “hey ‘What the’, quit being such a one-trick pony!” When I saw this, I couldn’t NOT throw you under the bus (but not down to the quarry). ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-problem-starting-up/620004/6 "2012-04-27T14:59:22Z")
> [@CCYMan](#): > > Thank you for having a sense of humor. I had just come from a thread whose theme was “hey ‘What the’, quit being such a one-trick pony!” When I saw this, I couldn’t NOT throw you under the bus (but not down to the quarry). Ise do got me a sense of humor !! Malwarebytes seemd to work. I ran the free scan and when I restarted that original dos-looking screen didn’t come up. However I did one other thing before restarting. During the process I got an error bubble from Roxio saying that their restore procedure and a windows restore procedure were both active. Roxio wanted me to shut down the other. Instead I uninstalled Roxio. Then I restarted the computer.