Re: Stuck booting into Safe Mode CLI

you can change the privledges even on an Admin account, the best advice is to
wipe it out and start clean. have all your install media handy and format the
drive and install fresh.

"pford-@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

On Jul 24, 6:39 pm, Malke <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
pfo...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello,

My son's game computer running Windows XP Home edition got some nasty
MalWare on it that has changed the protection of some files and
folders and altered privileges that prevents me or the antiMalWare
appls from deleting them. I had a terrible time getting safe mode to
come up so I could log in as the administrator. At that point, it came
up as a command line interface ? and that is where I am stuck. It now
always boots into the safe mode command line. When I get the screen to
come up that gives me options for booting, like safe mode, safe mode
CLI, last known good profile, etc., it still boots as safe mode CLI.
How do I fix this?

Also, it looks like some directories have been hidden from view. Is
there a means that I can see them?

At this point you'd be best off backing up his data and doing a clean
install of Windows. You can pull the hard drive and slave it in a working
machine or put it in an external hard drive to get the data.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html- Clean Install How-Tohttp://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows- What
you will need on-hand

Malke
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Well, I got out of the Safe Mode by tracking down where msconfig.exe
was and running it from the cli. So far I turned off restore point and
disabled appls that should not be starting using Registry Mechanic.

Now, I have another problem related to the malware. It has changed the
protection; for example, I cannot run Task Manager. I am not too Gung
Ho on backing up and restoring for a variety of reasons, with the most
important 2 being time and money. Where do I go using regedit to fix
the privileges? (I find it odd that an account with administrative
privileges can lose its privileges and XP still says it is an
administrative account.)

Thanks in advance.

PF

A second problem is that what ever these malware

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