Windows 7 won't restart properly
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- Have you tried starting up/restarting in Safe Mode? Does that work?
- Use a tool like Autoruns to find out which tasks/apps/services are running on startup. See anything there that might cause an issue? Maybe an app you haven't seen before?
- Do you experience any hard disk issues? Upon restarting, usually paging file operations are written or erased from the disk. This is quite a big file, usually found on the system partition (although might be configured differently). Check your disk to see if that's the issue.
- And the always-present explanation: check your machine for viruses, malware or rootkits - they cause all kinds of bizarre behavior.
Good luck!
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Omar
Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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Omar almost 2 years
Restarting my computer via Windows 7 will turn off windows and the screen will go black and remain black. Whenever I restart and I get to the black screen, I have to force shutdown or force restart for the computer to properly run.
What could be causing this? Note: Shutting down works fine, it's just the restart that doesn't work properly.
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Omar over 13 yearsI actually did have some malware and a rootkit a few weeks back. I thought everything was cleared, but Autoruns turned up two things that when I deleted them, I was able to restart again. Thanks!
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Admin about 10 yearsYour answer might benefit quite a bit from giving the reasons why CMOS battery removal helps.