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I mean, frozen st-st-stiff.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is the machine D. uses for everyday stuff: work documents, email, trafficking photos of Is. The last piece&#8211;baby photos&#8211;explains why this freeze-up was an Instant Crisis: three years&#8217; worth of digital images aren&#8217;t backed up anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Because the usual solutions (Ctrl-Alt-Del) weren&#8217;t working, I had no choice but to unplug the frozen PC.  When I rebooted, it cycled through the HP welcome screen (with the full spread of startup function-key interruptions available) and the Windows XP startup screen before landing on a blank screen. The blank screen included the mouse cursor, but nothing else, none of the desktop icons or navigation options.<\/p>\n<p>Various troubleshooting forums reported this problem is fairly widespread.  Lots of people have suffered through Windows XP booting to a blank screen with a mouse cursor.  And yet, the supposed causes were numerous: viruses, flawed hardware, glitchy service pack stuff, and so on. I had a PC Doctor CD burned, and I ran it through its cycle to at least confirm that all of the hardware checked out.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything else, I needed to gain access to the baby photos, access that would permit me to back them up before I attempted to run Windows through a repair process.  After talking through options with my brother, I used my VAIO laptop (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utorrent.com\/\">\u00b5Torrent<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/infrarecorder.org\/\">InfraRecorder<\/a>) to download Xubuntu and burn its .iso image to a CD.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xubuntu.org\/\">Xubuntu<\/a> worked fine, but it wouldn&#8217;t give me access to the Windows files.<\/p>\n<p>I rooted around in more forums, and I found that, unlike the lighter Linux OS, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> running from a CD <em>would<\/em> allow me to access all of the computer&#8217;s files.  I downloaded it, burned the .iso to another CD, booted the troubled computer from the disk, and easily navigated to find the precious files.  Next, I simply connected the Maxtor external hard drive I typically use to backup the aging VAIO, created another folder, and dropped 23GB of stuff from D.&#8217;s HP onto the drive.<\/p>\n<p>With the data rescued, I only needed to restore the operating system. I could manage this either by A) reinstalling Windows XP or B) (a long shot) following instructions for a Registry Restore Wizard available as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcd4win.com\/\">Ultimate Boot CD for Windows<\/a>, which I read about in a forum as a solution to the blank-screen startup in XP Home. Figured it was worth a try.<\/p>\n<p>Seems miraculous in retrospect, but option B went smoothly.  I downloaded the UBCD4Win .exe, also copied the contents of the XP installation CD into a folder, then ran the UBCD4Win executable, built the .iso, and burned the Ultimate Boot CD.  Within a few minutes, I was able to run the Registry Restore Wizard, pick a restore date from two weeks ago, and reboot the HP Slimline as if today was October 15 and nothing ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I went ahead and cycled through a few more steps, running cleanups and virus\/ad-aware scans.  AVG found a virus called &#8220;Defiler,&#8221; which may or may not have been the culprit. I didn&#8217;t bother to search beyond the &#8220;lazy 1-10&#8221; Google results for a backstory on the Defiler virus. 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