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Automatic repair -> blinking desktop
My daughter has a Dell P20T ultrabook (11" inspiron).
Yesterday when she turned it on it said "Automatic Repair" and eventually got to a blue screen.
We tried just rebooting several times, but it would always 'automatic repair' and end up at the blue screen.
We eventually chose Troubleshooting and 'advanced options' and chose to 'startup repair' which took forever.
When it did finally reboot, we were able to login but the desktop would blink on/off. No desktop icons ever showed up, just an empty blinking desktop with taskbar at the bottom.
I have read where you need to disable 'Windows Error Reporting' in msconfig, but it is blinking so fast (and the cursor has the spinning 'wait' wheel) I can't start anything. I can cntrl-ald-del and click task manager, but it never starts.
I've tried to boot to command line and add a 'disable' dword to the registery for Windows Error Reporting, but the desktop still blinks.
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