I’ve read through a number of other posts here about problems caused by GF, but none seem to address the exact same behavior I’m experiencing. I purchased GF last night, then it went through and cleaned my PC successfully, and showed me what actions it had taken. But when I restarted the PC, it got as far as my desktop wallpaper and icons, loaded a few start-up applications, and then locked up completely (perhaps while loading GF, but I don’t know for certain).
No error message of any kind. PC clock had frozen, and pc was unresponsive to keyboard, including crtl alt del. I had to press and hold the power button to get it to shut down. Now whenever I power it on, it gets to the same point and locks up again.
I notice that the hard drive keeps kerchunking away (for want of a better term) long after the PC has frozen, then eventually quiets down after a few minutes, which suggests to me that it’s getting hung on a start-up app, most likely GF.
Running on Windows XP.