I hope here is the correct place to post this as I can't see any other Forum category here that is more relevant.

My problem started suddenly late last night. When I Boot up my Sony laptop that is runnig Windows XP Pro with SP3 on Internet Explorer 7 with AVG 2012 Free version, I got a blue screen with whiteout text saying that AVG Watchdog is "Initiallising...(several processes check, then)....Finished", followed by "Starting Watchdog......Finished" and then stayed on screen. But in the background, I can hear my Windows Program executing. Thre is no error message being flagged up or pop up.

What can I do to rectify this problem ? At the moment, I work round this by pressing and holding down the On/Off button of the laptop, effectively switching it off and after waiting for a few seconds, Boot it up again. If I am lucky, after 2 or 3 tries, I would be able to get to my Desktop without this Watchdog message appearing.

I have tried starting in Safe Mode with the same result. I have also tried to restore back to a earlier point, all without success. I have also googled to see if there is a solution, but all seems to be very vague or are not workable including me not able to turning off the DEP Systems Performance as suggested (the option there is for Turnign it On and when I select this, it does not come back with a Off option).

I supposed the next thing for me to do is to Uninstall AVG and then reinstall it again and see if this works. But before doing this, I am hoping the gurus here have a simpler and /or quicker way to get this problem resolved (??).

Many thanks for your help in advanced.