Services.exe Error at Boot

From: gmh (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/03


Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 05:27:50 -0800

Has anyone experienced this problem?

I have a Dell desktop PC with XP Home. I shutdown the PC
with no problems at all. When I tried to reboot several
hours later, I got the following Windows error message
before the boot process got to the login screen:

  "Services.exe - Application Error.
   The application failed to initialized properly
   (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the
   application."

I normally reach the login screen within 20 seconds. It
took 10 minutes after I clicked OK, and then another 10
minutes to get a partial desktop. Everything is
glacially slow; can't use any applications; the PC is
basically a paper weight now.

Don't know if I got infected by a virus or trojan, or if
something else went wrong.

Dell Tech Suppt suggestions were unsuccessful (parallel
Win XP Home installation). Microsoft Tech Suppt
suggested that I try again with Dell! Dell punted and
said to contact a third party recovery company to backup
critical data, call Dell back and go thru a full format
and re-installation of everything with them (aarghhhhhh)!

Has anyone experienced this problem and come up with a
fix without formatting?



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