NT Boot Problem

[basspro]

I have WinNT workstation sp6. Sometimes it will boot up just fine other times it will hang after loading half the icons. Then I must reset it. It only does this on a certain user's account, never the admn account. This problem happens about 90% of the time. I've reinstall the service pack, reinstalled NT, removed and recreated the profile. I've tried changing from roaming to local but I get the same results. I also had this same problem with sp5 before I updated to sp6. Has aonyone else experienced this problem? Thanks....

[SubZero]

Hmmm...I haven't seen that before. Have you changed any hardware on the machine? If it happens only on User accounts, then it could be an authority issue with a service that is starting.

[Who Me]

Check the Event Viewer see if there are any clues as to whats hanging.

[basspro]

I have added no new hardware to the workstation. The event viewer is not reporting any erros either... Could it be a service that is not loading correctly?

[SubZero]

I would check in the services and see if anything failed to start. Also do you have any programs that run at startup.

BTW, basspro, how are things going on the other side of town?

[basspro]

Internal icq & pcAnywhere are the only programs that load at startup. I'll check the services out and see if I can find the problem.

Things have been good so far. I did not even notice that we were from the same area. Small world!

[Nailz]

If it only happens when certain users log in then it sounds like it may be profile related.

Is this on an NT network? a Novell Network? or a standalone machine. If on a network, then see if this happens when this client logs into other machines. If standalone, then I'd blow away the local account and recreate it (be sure that you save anything saved to the desktop and possibly their Favorites folder if they use IE). It may also be a corrupt 'Default Users' folder which is the template for newly created accounts. Copy that over from a clean PC.