Sorry for the inconvenience

[Julie]

For the past 2 weeks when I try to boot up Win XP Pro I get this message:
"We are sorry for the inconvenience but Windows did not start successfully..."
Then it says it could have been not shut down properly, power failure etc..
and offers me the choice of Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration, Start Normally etc.
The default is Start Normally and if I do nothing, it starts after 30 seconds.

I can't work out what I have done wrong. I haven't done anything that was mentioned as
possible causes.
The computer works fine after it starts, but it's very annoying. No wonder they are sorry!!!
Is there anything I can do about this?

[Panama Red]

Take a look in the Event Viewer and see if anything there gives you a clue. To get to the Viewer, right click My Computer>select Manage>double click Even Viewer in the left pane to expand the tree. Check each sub-area for issues.

[Julie]

Thanks. Will do that and let you know.

[Julie]

Very strange! That error message hasn't come up since I lasted posted.
Anyway I looked in Event Viewer and the only entries that look suspicious are these two:

"Windows saved user Main\Julie registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account."

and

"A provider, Rsop Planning Mode Provider, has been registered in the WMI namespace, root\RSOP, but did not specify the HostingModel property. This provider will be run using the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. Ensure that provider has been reviewed for security behavior and update the HostingModel property of the provider registration to an account with the least privileges possible for the required functionality."

What do they mean?