Advice needed on start up glitch dfs.vxd freezes

[robertdwhite]

Working on a box for a charity I help on occasion. The box freezes on startup as it goes from the blue screen with the moving band across the bottom. No message or other indication. I went to step by step verification. It progressed to the point of executing the dfs.vxd then just stopped not really froze. I am going to verify the file is there then reinstall a new one any ideas beyond that at this point? Thanks for any recommendations.

[MobilePCPhysician]

Slave the hard drive in another machine. Run an updated antivirus on it. Replace and run in safe mode. Check startup folders, run Spybot, Ad-aware etc. Make sure to update them. Reboot.