“Saving your settings” – how come sometimes when a computer is booting up, it seems to get stuck at
this point, and I have to reboot it and THEN it boots up OK?
I work in a setting where there are computer labs, on a network with mucho software, virus protection, etc., on it, and often two or three computers out of the bunch seem to get stuck at this point. With the golf course in the background, and the Saving your settings message..
What gives? What does this mean?
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)"Saving your settings" is something you would expect to see during shutdown.
Could it be "loading your settings" or "restoring your settings"?
What do your network login scripts do?
raccoon
(31,083 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Windows (XP at least) has quite a bit of built in error checking an fixing. It may seem it is stuck, but is going through a routine making sure things are right. I've seen XP computers finish booting after hours of seemly being stuck.
Anyway wait 20 to 30 minutes before forcing another reboot. If a particular computer seems to do this a bit often, run a disk check on the hard drive. When done, check the log for errors, especially for sector errors. This could be an indication of a bad or corrupted hard drive.