Stuck at Preparing your Desktop!

[Nadeem97]

Hey guys..

Ive been running a fresh install of windows vista ultimate for the past 7 days with absolutely no problems at all , until today morning , i switched my machine on , and waited till the log in promot , entered my password , and suddenly i just got stuck on that Preparing your desktop message , and nothing happens..

i tried waiting longer , it just shows up the cursor with the a blue background an nothing on the screen ( and by nothing i mean NOTHING)..

Help!

[x3lumin8x]

Can you boot into Safe Mode?

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Sounds like Explorer is hanging for some reason. Have you recently installed any shell extensions? Can you boot into safe mode?

[Impact]

Try booting into safe mode and opening a command prompt and typing "sfc /scannow" without the quotes.