hi, thanks firstly for all your responses.. i've currently got the clean boot
running permanently and i'm gradually reintroducing my startup services and
processes.

just one thing, is it safe to continue in this manner with minimal services
running.. ie are there any windows processes that i need to make sure are
still running for safety/security? (i've made sure my firewall's on!!)

thanks again

"danK" wrote:

> hi, my XP frequently freezes when i log in, and i have to restart, sometimes
> several times. No errors are displayed. could someone tell me if there's an
> error log i can look to, to see if there's an application trying to start
> which is causing this?
>
> i've checked my event log, in application i have an ipod warning and in
> system i have one about bluetooth, but they're only warnings and not fatal.
> is there somewhere else that gives a sequential list of startup processes?
>
> thanks in advance
> danK