XP Logon Problems

[shilton]

Hi.. I'm running XP Home and when I get to the logon
screen and click on either user it starts loading
settings and then automatically starts logging off. The
same thing happens in Safe Mode, I have done a repair
install but with no luck. I hate to format it as there
are some files needed on the drive. Thanks, Steve

 

[mrdinkel]

Two ideas...

1. What 'bout pushing Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice, and see what you can do there... it just brings you to a logon prompt. Tell me what you get there...

2. Logon as Administrator in Safe Mode... and remake you account.

 

[shilton]

Tried both of those Get the same results either way.. starts the login procedure and then logs off before finishing.

 

[Lostman]

Did you activate your copy of XP Home? Might it be an illigal copy and you updated to SP1?

I will bet dime to dollar it's one of the 2.


Edit - - - did you change any major pieces of hardware? If so, I believe in the communist world of MS, you have to re-activate XP Home again. MS must know everything about your system.

 

[shilton]

It came preinstalled on a new Dell 6 months ago..this just started happening.. anyway I pulled the HD and put it in a different puter and copied what I needed off it and then formatted. Thanks for the repiles

 

[dethangel]

ahh the old take-my-crap-to-a-friends-house-and-get-my-stuff-then-reformat deal huh?

 

[shilton]

Actually it was the friend bringing his crap to my house deal ;-)

 

[ekÆsine]

ooohhhh.... so it was the ol' take-my-friends-crap-over-to-my-house-so-i-can-save-my-crap-and-fix-my-crap-that-got-screwed-up-by-microsoft thing eh? that is ingenious shilton