User accounts not starting

Restarting a PC (DELL Inspiron 530 running Vista Home Premium) after
check-disk run on start-up starts Windows to the 'Welcome' screen. However,
logging into any of the user accounts initially produces the next 'Welcome'
screen and the little 'wait' circle but then it goes black and only the white
cursor is displayed, nothing else happens.

In safe mode, the user account loads normally.

Prehistory: The PC had started to do odd things a while ago: take very very
long to shut down, more or less freeze on some of the limited user accounts
(the boys'), not shut down at all, and similar.

Today, as a further attempt to right things, I ran the MS Disk Cleanup
(normally I use CCleaner) and Check Disk option on start-up. That
reported quite a lot of problems and fixes and took a long time.

tandlj;676286 Wrote:
> Restarting a PC (DELL Inspiron 530 running Vista Home Premium) after
> check-disk run on start-up starts Windows to the 'Welcome' screen.
> However,
> logging into any of the user accounts initially produces the next
> 'Welcome'
> screen and the little 'wait' circle but then it goes black and only the
> white
> cursor is displayed, nothing else happens.
>
> In safe mode, the user account loads normally.
>
> Prehistory: The PC had started to do odd things a while ago: take very
> very
> long to shut down, more or less freeze on some of the limited user
> accounts
> (the boys'), not shut down at all, and similar.
>
> Today, as a further attempt to right things, I ran the MS Disk Cleanup
> (normally I use CCleaner) and Check Disk option on start-up. That
> reported quite a lot of problems and fixes and took a long time.

I am having trouble digesting what you said. Allow me to ask a few
questions for clarifications : -
1.) Are your boys' user accounts ok in normal mode now after "disk
cleanup etc.", or still no go ? If no go, you could remove their
accounts in Safe mode, and re-create their accounts in normal mode, and
see if they could be logged on this time.
2.) " That reported quite a lot of problems and fixes and took a long
time ". So, is everything fixed now ? If not, what are the current
problems ?
3.) How long is " awhile ago "? ( If not too long ago, a system restore
might help.)


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