Re: Normal user login now logs off immediately [w/o administrator righ

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

If you've had a minor disk problem perhaps you ought to download and run the
HD manu checking utility

"Darmdorf" <darmdorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:268CC54E-54E8-4E83-BA58-E53DB7B02CFF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My normal user account under XP Pro SP2 (which has no administrator
rights)
> is no longer able to login. The login begins in a normal fashion:
preferences
> are loaded, there is disk activity for a while, the background image is
> displayed, but before any icons or toolbar entries appear a logout
suddenly
> occurs. If I try again the logout is immediate. While trying to diagnose
the
> problem I happened to give my normal user account administrator rights,
which
> then strangely allows a normal login. Very spooky. Removing admin rights
> brings the problem back again.
>
> Judging from the system logs, evidently an NTFS error was logged just
before
> the problem began. The very next normal start automatically included a
chkdsk
> run, repairing many problems on my C: drive (file truncations, orphan
> clusters, etc.). Nothing to really worry about. After about a minute into
the
> actual start a single DCOM server error
> {73E709EA-5D93-4B2E-BBB0-99B7938DA9E4} was logged because of an "incorrect
> application configuration".
>
> I've tried everything I can think of to repair the damage. Chkdsk shows no
> errors, and I also haven't been able to spot any errors with Regedit. The
> security profiles also appear to be correct when compared with another XP
Pro
> system. I've browsed here extensively for similar problems and not found
> anything applicable. I don't have the typical userinit /
wsaupdaterregistry
> problem with the registry winlogon entry. I also went back to a check
point
> previous to the problem, but that didn't change the behavior either. I'm
sure
> I don't have a malware problem, as I have AD-Watch active, use Spybot
> regularly, and have a decent Kaspersky Internet Security package.
>
> It must be something during the login procedure which is directly affected
> by administrator rights, but what? Any ideas? It would probably be
helpful,
> if one could somehow protocol the logon progress to find out what is
actually
> going awry. I really hate to have to leave administrator rights enabled
for
> my normal work, as that's inviting trouble. As an ex-computer expert, I
must
> admit that I've never seen XP have problems of this kind after a minor
disk
> problem. I'd really appreciate any help in the matter.


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Interactive login privalidge has been disabled.
    ... Is this XP Home or XP Pro? ... doing a system restore to a point in time before this ever happened. ... administrator rights. ... All 4 persons could login & then all of a sudden ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: "Moving" entire system partition to another disk?
    ... Particularly if you're both experiencing the exact same issue... ... I copied a disk to another using Ghost ... Before I got to "login" it said ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Serious problems, neet help ASAP!
    ... I can dial in and login from that PC but I cannot browse, access aol, or do ... I've used Norton all my computing days on my own laptop since Win95 and rarely ... My folks do not have the Windows XP install disk, and bye the way the restore ... so the viruses are cleaned off the system. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: /LGICMD suggestion
    ... I'd tend to look at why the particular disk dropped offline, and at what can be done to reduce the exposure to that -- the failed and inaccessable login is probably the tip of a very large iceberg of problems that can arise here, and dealing with those errors is going to be interesting. ... If you need remote emergency access, then a terminal server (or as they are often now known, as a "console management processor") or a management processor is the way in. ... on the tape drive while he drives in to work ...
    (comp.os.vms)
  • Re: Normal user login now logs off immediately [w/o administrator
    ... >>>>> then strangely allows a normal login. ... evidently an NTFS error was logged ... >>> removed administrator rights from my normal "admin" user and the problem ... the DCOM error I wrote about had to do ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)