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problem starting Windows 7 with network
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I am a student who is exteremly intersted in all aspects of computers and is currently taking a computer hardware class.
I just installed win7 32bit on a friends computer and everything worked great. I installed avast as well as malware bits and skype (didnt want to but his room mate uses it) I also downloaded cabos since he said he would be using limewire. I showed him cabos so less resorces would be used up.
Now the problem was brought to my attention about two weeks later. I was told computer would not get past loading screen. it would start up and mouse arrow would be in middle of screen and stay there. I first checked the mouse to make sure there was no hard ware issues. there was not. I then went into the bios and checked the boot sequence as well as other things just to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary. After freezing on loading screen on me a couple times i went to safe mode and started it up the first time with out network, everything worked fine like the day i installed it. i ran malware bites then avast just to make sure nothing had infected the computer and i also ran one program then the other to see if the computer would freeze after a given amount of time. i figured with eather of the programs having an elapsed time on it i could see how long it took before a freeze if one was to accure. No freezes. problems or viruses.
So i restart and go into safe made with networking, i incounter the same problem i had with regular start up. I end up trying a couple more time to make sure it was a flook or somthing that might work after a couple trys. no avail so i start to think it has somthing to do with the networking. never incountered a problem like it before and was a little thrown off. I figured if i dont find out what is wrong then i can always just re-install the op system and start from scratch see if problem repeats its self. No matter what rout i go with, i am thursty for knoledge and would love to get some more insight on what might be the issue. Thanks and sorry for it being so long