RE: Unable to log on

Did you fix this? I am having same problem.

"Jim Pletcher" wrote:

Thank you for your response!
I expect you're right about the Trojan issue, because it takes a LONG time
to even get to the Welcome screen.

Any suggestions on how to fix this (I can acces the hard drive with The
Ultimate Boot Disk), or should I just consider this a "nuke & pave" situation?

"Anteaus" wrote:

This is most often because userinit.exe cannot be loaded. This might be due
to the file being damaged, or it may be that a Trojan has changed the
registry hook to point elsewhere, then the Trojan has been deleted, leaving a
broken link in the boot sequence.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/12330.mspx?mfr=true


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"Jim Pletcher" wrote:

In normal mode, or safe mode, when any user apttempts tp log on they get the
"loading your settings" message then are immediately logged off.

Chkdsk /f (from Ultimate Boot Disk) fixed some errors, but did not improve
the situation.

Using Fixmbr (from Windows CD) indicates a non-standard configuration and
warns of deleting partitions - so I didn't try it.

Any ideas?

.

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