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moranacus:
I never seen this before and have no idea what this is.
I turn on my computer and when it gets to the point where its
blue and says WINDOWS this box appears in the middle of the
screen with an ! point in the middle and a YES and NO button
to push. It says nothing else and the computer won't finish
loading until I select YES or NO.
I hit NO both times and the computer finishes booting up.
I'm scared to see what would happen if I push YES.
Anyone have an idea what this is????

J-Mac:
Might help to see a picture of it. Since it happens during bootup you will have to take a pic with a digital camera and then upload it here.

Jim

moranacus:
Sorry but I don't have a way to do that at the moment.
The ! is actually at the top left of the box inside a yellow triangle.
The symbol actually looks like the one that appears in the task bar when
there are updates for Windows XP and other programs.

mwb1100:
I'd try using something like Autoruns to disable startup programs - see if the problem goes away.  If it does, you can re-enable startup items in small groups to see when the window reappears to narrow down what's causing it.

J-Mac:
Sorry but I don't have a way to do that at the moment.
The ! is actually at the top left of the box inside a yellow triangle.
The symbol actually looks like the one that appears in the task bar when
there are updates for Windows XP and other programs.
-moranacus (June 04, 2009, 03:49 PM)
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Well it would help. Tough to diagnose with no details, like a pic of the dialog box or at least a detailed description of it. Is it a standard looking Windows dialog? BTW, what are you running - XP? Home or Pro? SP1, 2, or 3?

Is there a title bar, blue XP classic coloring? Does anything say "Error" anywhere in the dialog - or title bar if there is one? Have you looked at the Event Viewer, system and application logs? Any errors listed there that correspond to the same exact time?

Just offhand it sounds like it could be related to the login screen or something generated by csrss.exe.

Jim

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