Turns out it was the Defense+ feature of comodo. As soon as I disabled that
computer booted normally.
"Dave" <donotreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My computer started to hang at startup after removing Norton 360 &
> replacing it with Avast & Comodo. I tried to do a system restore earlier
> this morning but the restore failed.
> On startup, I would usually get one icon in the system tray before the
> computer hangs.
>
> If I right click, the screen is highlighted in a much lighter shade and I
> get a message asking whether I want to end the process or wait however
> there is no indication as to what process or application is hanging.
>
> Additionally, after I have ended the process a couple of times, after the
> computer has finished booting super antispyware and my logitech G-series
> software failed to load properly - I have uninstalled both with no effect.
>
> After enabling boot loging, it is stated that 'kbdhid.sys' and 'srv.sys'
> did not load. The first driver appears to be related to the keyboard which
> could be why the G15 software didn't load properly.
>
> I ran sfc /scannow and it got to 98% file verification before it ended and
> said it could not fix all files. I ran sfc /scan now in normal mode, not
> safe mode which I will do shortly.
>
> How do I find out exactly what is causing this problem and go about
> resolving it? Like I said, it only began to happen after removing Norton
> 360 with the Norton Removal Tool and replacing it with the latest versions
> of Avast Antivirus and Comodo Firewall Pro. I also installed Google
> Toolbar after this and I've disabled GoogleToolbarNotifier and Google
> Updater from loading at startup.
>
> In the boot log file. kbdhid.sys is loaded several lines below it's
> initial failure however srv.sys's failure to load comes right after the
> log stating that it loaded srv.sys
>
> Dave