Sometimes you can boot all the way to Normal Mode with no problem? Other times it won't get there, but you get an error message that fdce.vxd is missing & an auto-reboot to Safe Mode? Is that it? What Registry key do you delete it from? And it comes back?

Sounds like it is a driver file. Can it be you have set up User & Hardware Profiles? Can it be happening only when you boot to a certain User?

Maybe look in "Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab" for a red/yellow ?/!, & report back.


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"*selah*" wrote in message ...
| Sometimes our computer reboots automatically into safe mode when
| starting from a cold boot. When it does this, we also get the message
| that a file, fdce.vxd is missing and that the registry or win.ini refers
| to it. I tried searching for it in win.ini and the registry and deleted
| it from the registry but we still get this message when booting into
| safe mode. This doesn't happen in normal mode.
|
| Would appreciate any help with getting rid of this message and
| preventing the automatic reboot into safe mode.
|
| Thanks.
|