Today I wanted to use my PC in a different room so I connected it to a different monitor to “save time”.

Unfortunately this caused Windows XP to fail to start so I switched off the PC and connected my usual monitor.

Then XP went into a loop continually rebooting my PC. All I could do was boot up into safemode. Pressing F8 can get you into safe mode as well as from the command line.

Then I tried system restore to an earlier date but got the message “your computer cannot be restored”! I tried an earlier restore point with the same result. I tried again and again with the last saved restore point. Finally it did restore itself! The last thing I wanted to do was re-install windows XP.

It seems like you need to be persistant with a stubborn opperating system.

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