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Windows XP : How to Troubleshoot and Fix Shutdown, Restart/Reboot, Reboot, and Startup Problems - Plus the Support Pages on this Website Covering Windows Vista and Windows 7

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Shutdown and restart (reboot) problems

How to troubleshoot PC startup problems

Startup, shutdown and restart articles in the MS Knowledge Base

How to use the Bootcfg /Rebuild command in the Recovery Console to recover from "Missing or corrupt HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." startup error messages

What to do if Windows XP won't boot and you don't have an XP installation CD and you don't want to use the Recovery CD provided by the PC's manufacturer

My PC reboots by itself and warnings have appeared asking me to run Chkdsk

ARTICLES ON WINDOWS XP & WINDOWS VISTA & WINDOWS 7 ON THIS WEBSITE

1. - Recover, restore and repair Windows XP when the computer crashes or fails to boot

2. - Recover, restore and repair Windows Vista when a computer crashes or fails to boot

3. - Windows Vista problems: How to fix problems with Windows Vista

4. - Recover restore and repair Windows 7 (Win7) when a computer crashes or fails to boot

5. - Windows 7 problems: How to fix problems with Windows 7

6. - How Microsoft's Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 Product Activation works

7. - Software and Windows problems and solutions

8. - How to use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in Windows XP

9. - Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on Windows 98/XP/Vista/Windows 7

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