Re: loading multiple drivers at bootup

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:57:23 -0700

Drivers are not user account specific and are almost always boot-start
devices hence they're in place long before the logon box is displayed. You
may want to post the details of the problem and also any Event Viewer
messages. 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Jacob Dempsey" wrote:
| I have a windows 2000 workstation that loads (or tries to
| load) multiple copies of everything that is loaded at boot
| up. After it is done loading everything the computer
| imeadiatly shuts down. It only happens to one of the
| accounts on the computer. The other (that I don't normally
| use) works fine. If I boot in safe mode it stays running.
| When I created a boot log it had all of the entries in it
| multiple times (around six times each), but they were not
| always in the exact same order.
| I have the latest virus defenitions from symantec. I
| downloaded all of the updates from microsoft. I only have
| one entry for each thing in the registry
| HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
|
| Any ideas

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