Safe mode Trouble

with thoughts of a virus, I shut off "system restore" and
was going to run a virus scan from safe mode.
Choosing "safe mode" from the F8 during startup, would
not load the "windows safe mode desktop". I then
restarted the computer normally, went to the command line
in "run" and entered "msconfig" and chose "safemode" and
restarted the computer. When the computer restarted, It
still would not load to the "safe mode desktop". After
several attempts without success, I tried to "reload" XP
from the cd, and chose "repair existing OS", it worked,
except when the system shut down to finish loading the
operating system, it came up with the message, Windows
cannot finish loading in "safe mode". How do you turn off
safe mode without actually going into the run command
from the desktop and unchecking "safemode"? With the F8
option during startup, choosing "start windows normally
does not work either. I also tried to go into
the "Recovery Console" but my administration password did
not work. Is there a "standard" password? Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Mike, did you assign a admin password for Recovery Console. If not, just
ignore the message. Did you
wait long enough for windows to load when you first tried after using F8.
Sometimes it takes quite awhile.
Go to Start>Run type: msconfig select Boot.ini If the SafeBoot
option is checked then uncheck . If that's not the case then
Start over and do a Repair Install. Not a Repair OS. Check here for more
info.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

"Mike" <mjswideglide DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> with thoughts of a virus, I shut off "system restore" and
> was going to run a virus scan from safe mode.
> Choosing "safe mode" from the F8 during startup, would
> not load the "windows safe mode desktop". I then
> restarted the computer normally, went to the command line
> in "run" and entered "msconfig" and chose "safemode" and
> restarted the computer. When the computer restarted, It
> still would not load to the "safe mode desktop". After
> several attempts without success, I tried to "reload" XP
> from the cd, and chose "repair existing OS", it worked,
> except when the system shut down to finish loading the
> operating system, it came up with the message, Windows
> cannot finish loading in "safe mode". How do you turn off
> safe mode without actually going into the run command
> from the desktop and unchecking "safemode"? With the F8
> option during startup, choosing "start windows normally
> does not work either. I also tried to go into
> the "Recovery Console" but my administration password did
> not work. Is there a "standard" password? Any help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thank you
>