Gateway laptop freezing on Windows welcome screen

Thread starter tkline24
Start date Dec 19, 2011

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tkline24

Dec 19, 2011

#1

My gateway laptop will not let me get past the windows xp welcome screen. It freezes right up and i cant get to the desktop.

Tmagic650

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Dec 20, 2011

#2

Do you have a factory restore function as you first boot? Press F? for ?

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