Re: Unable to login to XP Home

From: ColTom2 (noemailaddress_at_none.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:00:19 -0500

You might want to try this:
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

"Alex Nichol" <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote in message
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> Christopher Knapp wrote:
>
>>Have a toshiba laptop with XP Home (No service packs)
>>Whenever user logs in (by clicking their name, no password, only account
>>on
>>the system besides administrator) It says Loading Personal Settings,
>>screen
>>flashes for a second, then displays "Saving your settings..." then brings
>>you back to Welcome screen.
>>Booted to safe mode. Both Administrator account and user's account do the
>>same thing in safe mode.
>
> Adapted from a Post from Kelly: I suggest using this method if you
> have a proper retail type CD you can boot from
>
> This problem turns out to be that the Winlogon userinit entry is being
> set to "wsaupdater.exe," and not "userinit.exe,".
>
> Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
> of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
> requested is blank, and TAB over.
>
> Change the C:\Windows prompt to: C:\Windows\System32
> by
> CD System32
> then
> COPY userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe
>
> Reboot into Safe Mode and use a run of regedit.exe:
>
> Open to
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT
> \CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>
> And in the right pane double click UserInit and change from
> wsaupdater.exe to userinit.exe,
>
> Then you can reboot and delete the wpaupdater.exe file
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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