Solved! Laptop stuck on Welcome screen ?

[dramacydal]

Hi, My laptop is stuck on welcome screen, last night it was working perfectly, but this morning i turned it on and it worked, but then after a few minutes its stop responding and refuses to take a click, so i hold the power button and turn it off, now once i put it on it refused to click on anything. couldn't log on.tried it a few times, same problem.
Then i remove the battery and try some remedies, my laptop decided to click but its just stuck on
the welcome screen. Tried a few more times but same problem, Please help.

I ran it on safe mode and it worked perfectly, Been using this laptop for about 2 and a half years and never had this kind of a major problem.

I really dont want to format, go to many games, movies and data.
Laptop specs - gateway fx p-7805u

17" WXGA+
Centrino core2 - 2.26ghz
4 Gigs DDR3 (1066mhz)
nVidia 9800m GTS
320Gb 7200RPM HDD
Vista ultimiate

 

[buwish]

The first place I'd start would be to look for malware. Download malwarebytes install file to a usb drive and install it if you have access to another computer. See if anything comes up and if so, if removing it takes care of the issue.