XP frozen but can still use the mouse

brakeinup · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:35

Has anyone seen this problem before?

XP Pro SP2. Boots into desktop and I get about 5 seconds or so of normal operation when the system seems to freeze - but I can still move the mouse.

The left and right click does nothing. I can press the windows key on the keyboard and the start menu will pop up and down but I cannot do anything else.

I can network to the file system from another pc without an issue. Task manager will pop up when I ctrl+alt+del but does not show any cpu or memory usage that is out of the ordinary.

Weird one really and I am stumped.

Any ideas from anyone appreciated

touch · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:42

mouse problem with click buttons?

brakeinup · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:46

swapped the mouse and keyboard. No drag and drop, not selecting etc.

weird.

brakeinup · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:11

Hmm. It seems to be my firewall (Kerio) that is causing the issues.

I disabled the service and rebooted from safe mode and all is well so far.

So all good