When i start my computer just before it gets to the windows screen it shuts off..what do i do

If you have Windows
Left-click START or the round blue Windows icon at bottom left of screen.
Or press the Windows key at bottom row of keyboard.
Left-click the white right-arrow symbol next to "Shut down".
This drops down a choice menu.
Left-click "Restart".
Now sit back and watch the magic happen.

Otherwise to shut down click the Shut down bar in Start window.

Or in case the PC freezes / hangs press "Power" button.

If an application hangs, stopping your computer, you can also try close down the app in "Task Manager".
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
Wait until the Task Manager options window pops up on screen.
Left-click "Start task Manager"
Left-click "Applications"
Shut down the app then exit TM.
Reboot to refresh memory.

Try this:

Start the computer. As soon as the "Starting Windows" screen comes up (not the Acer screen), hold down the Power Button to shut off the computer. This might force the computer to go in to Windows recovery mode when you restart. Now, turn on the computer, and it should go to a "Windows Diagnostics and Recovery" page. Choose Diagnose the Problem or whatever it says, follow the instructions.

Good luck.

If your HP computer refuses to power down, this means that there are still programs open that Windows can't close. Normally when you select the "Shut Down" button from your "Start" menu, Windows closes all open programs, then closes itself, and your basic input/output system (BIOS) turns off all of your hardware. If Windows can't close all open programs, your computer won't be able to power off. This means that you must close these programs yourself.

Right-click on the window of an open program on your Windows taskbar (Bottom of Screen) Click "Close Window." Windows manually closes the program. If a window appears on-screen indicating that Windows cannot get the program to close, click the "Force Close" button in this window to have Windows force the program to shut down. Repeat "Step 1" for any additional programs that are open on your computer. Click "Start." Click "Shut Down." Hope this helps.

Windows is toast, my friend. I hope you have a good backup, and recovery disks. It's probably malware, but the bottom line is Windows needs to be reinstalled.

have you added any new hardware? could be hardware related. did anything change befofe theproblem started? if you can get it to boot to safe mode try looking in device mgr and see if you have conflicts. f8 on startup will load option screen, you might try "fixboot" or "fixmbr" without quoation mksrom cmd prompt screen

Start wile pressing the F8 or TAB key and select the last time your computer worked properly, otherwise try to start in safe mode and restore it the previous day. If this does not rectify it or u are unable to even get there, best option is to Insert your OS CD and boot from CD ROM. Select install, but on the same partion that your OS is loaded on. The screen will display that another version of windows already exist. DO NOT SELECT AUTO REPAIR but go ahead untill u reach the option to repair by pressing the "R" key, do so and follow the instructions on the screen. This will not cause any loss of Data or programs installed other than correct the SYSTEM FILES of WINDOWS. Hopefully one of the above should work....sodeep

Try going into safe mode upon startup by hitting the F8 button. If it does then hit safe mode to get into your computer. Go to start>accessories>system tools>system restore. Follow the wizard to restore your computer to a date earlier than when you started having problems. Let me know if you have any problems or questions.

Use the Windows Recovery Console to run a check disk repair.
This link explains how to:
Windows Recovery Console

1. Start laptop
2. When the laptops Logo page closes, start to press F8
3. You should get a Windows Start screen
4. If you get a Windows Logo page (the kind you normally get when Windows loads, then reset it and start again.
5. On the Windows Start page select "Last known good configuration" and press enter twice

Hope that solves it for you =)

Preventing programs from automatically loading If you see the program you wish to remove however have Windows 95 click Start / Settings / Taskbar & Startup Menu / click the Start Menu programs tab

Good Luck/Please dont for get to Vote. Thank you