kiwi1960, There's a couple of things, but it's been a while since I've had to do it. It depends on what you mean by "endless loop at startup".

If it's happening before you get to the windows desktop, you'll have to try to get to the startup menu.
When booting up from powered off state, you want to hit the function 8 key. (F8) There's actually a short window in which to do it, that I usually recognize by the bios beeps and then I start tapping that key until either I've obviously missed it, or I'm in a menu.
If you aren't sure what the bios beeps are, just start tapping the function 8 as soon as you turn it on at a rate of about once or twice a second. That trick usually works for most people.
It's been a long time, so maybe it was F7 instead of F8, but I'm pretty sure it's Function 8.
Anyway, there should be an option on that menu to startup without other software running, or safe mode.
(Again, it's been years since I've done this, and the menus do change depending on version of windows. I've never done it in windows 8 or 10, so no idea what those look like.)
Now if that'll get you into a working windows but without all your other stuff, you can then disable that program so it's not running on startup. Then you can reboot like normal and it should be ok.
Now, something I wanted to bring up. If that doesn't help, it could be possible that windows was damaged somehow, and it might not have anything to do with this program. In which case, you'll probably want to look at using your repair disks or something along those lines, but I never saw that happen too often when I was doing this stuff for a living.

I hope this helps, and I apologize for the lousy writing style, but it's ~4:30 am and I'm way past tired.

Meerling  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+24)

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Lenny, How would you know which programs and drivers are real and which ones are dangerous and fake just by looking at the names, my list was over 100 long.
Who has time to review and search for every one of them to find out if is a Trojan or Virus or just a normal file?

Martin  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+19)

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Martin,

Anti-virus and anti-malware programs look deeper than just the file name they check each files signature against the database, simple having a malicious file change it's name or location prevent it from being detected in most cases, but there are always going to be some that slip through the net, nothing is 100% foolproof.

Lenny  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+15)

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