2.Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and then press ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen. 3.Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console. 4.In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.
-Windows won't start up. It gets stuck at welcome screen. -The mouse and keyboard are working. -CTRL+ALT+DEL not working-In safe mode the same.-Removing the HDD and copying registries SECURITY, SYSTEM, SAM, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT from an early snapshot into \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG not working either.
Power on the PC. As soon as you press the power-on button, begin hitting the Esc button (like tap-tap-tap). This should open a HP Startup Menu which may look similar to this one. Choose F9 to open Boot options. Select the USB thumb drive as boot option. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Windows 10.
Click Start button then "Run". Unfortunately, the Welcome screen cannot be used at all with XP machines on a domain. You might be able to do so in Windows Vista or 7, but not on XP. OK, suspicions confirmed. No harm in trying.
Windows XP machine normally hangs on "Applying Personal Settings" If windows tries to create a paging file on NTFS Volume. This issue might be true if following are the reason as well. You use the Welcome screen to log on to the system. You have a network share mapped to a drive letter. The network share has been made available offline.
Solved: Windows 10 is stuck on Welcome screen. Before we start — Boot in Safe Mode. Method 2. Run the System File Checker. Method 3. Run the DISM command. Method 4. Disconnect all USB devices. Method 5. The MS Knowledge Base article noted below, may help in restoring a "prior XP System Restore point", in the case where you are unable to do this from a Windows session. The article describes how to start the System Restore tool when you are unable to start your Windows XP-based computer normally or in Safe mode.
4) The start-up process then stalls and hangs, the login screen is never displayed. 5) There is also NO response to pressing (CTRL-ALT-DEL) multiple times in an effort to reach the text based login screen. --. The problem is very similar to what happens when the Windows system drive LETTER inadvertently changes, such that Windows cannot find
However this now prevents me from logging into windows from the safe mode as well Argh! I now can only access the PC from the Recovery Console included on the XP installation Disc. Can anyone suggest how I can get past the welcome screen. ptxb.
