Re: autoruns mistake

My HD has just one partition. and I don't understand what you mean by saying
what methods i have available to me. And I sure don't know what a
slipstream is. Maybe I will just bring it to the shop and let them have at
it."John John (MVP)" wrote:

I don't think that you will be able to fix this from the Recovery
Console, you cannot edit the registry by way of the Recovery Console.
If you feel confident enough to mount the drive in another Windows XP
computer or in a USB enclosure then you can access the damaged registry
and try to fix things. If you cannot mount the disk in another XP
machine or USB enclosure then this will be a very difficult problem to
solve, you will need to use a special boot disk with an onboard registry
editor, building such a boot disk is not a trivial matter, it takes
several hours and it takes advanced computer skills.

Does your hard drive have more than one partition? Installing a second
"parallel" copy of Windows on the second partition is another method
that can be used to access the damaged registry on the broken
installation. Otherwise you can try a Repair Install, but that will
require that you "slipstream" SP3 to your Windows CD.

Fixing the damaged registry is not too hard to do, the hard part is
finding a way to access the registry. Tell us which methods are
available to you and we will see what we can suggest.

John


Larry wrote:

Hey John Yes my system is a stand alone desktop and yes I tried different
boots safemood, safemode with command prompt boot ot last known good
settings. If I had a boot disk maybe?????? I don't know a whole lot about
computers, enough to make messes. I tried to boot from xp setup disk as well
something about recover consoul. Don't know anything about dos commands. Any
how

"John John (MVP)" wrote:


It sounds like you disabled the Userinit entry at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

You need to access the registry and restore this value. Is your machine
a standalone or is it part of a network?

John

Larry wrote:


I made the mistake of trying microsoft autoruns utility this morning, withnot
so good results. Thinking (This is the problem (THINKING) that i knew what
was going on I unchecked a bunch of stuff. Now I can't get to the system
restore to undo the mess I made.
I'm running XP Pro SP3. I trun on the pc and it askes for a logon and
password, never done that before. I put in my username which is already
listed no password and click ok. It boots to the desktop, but before it can
load any icons it shuts down and again askes for my logon. I can do this till
doomesday comes.
Here is my question, How can I get past this logon issue and set my pc back
to an earleir time. Thanks of any help Larry


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