[41fool]

This computer goes through the motions of booting up, then stops on a blank screen with the mouse pointer dead center in the screen. The mouse moves around fine and pressing shift 5 times causes the Stickey Keys window to pop up. Caps lock key works but the computer will do nothing else. Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not work. Nothing else works. It does this weather I boot it in Safe Mode or normal boot. This is my niece's computer and she was trying to update some driver when this started. Is there a way to do a system restore if I can not get Vista to boot?

Another wrinkle...after a few minutes, the screen saver starts like normal.

help help help! She needs this computer to do her homework!

[Elvandil]

Boot from the Vista DVD and run Startup Repair. It may take more than one try.