Re: autoruns mistake

Hi George,

The reason I asked John John for clarification about his slipstreaming
statement is because I DID do an XP repair install -- to get my Help and
Support working again -- using my XP Home SP2 CD onto my SP3-updated system
a couple of weeks ago.

The repair install proceeded without any problems, and after it finished my
system had reverted back to SP2.

I then re-installed SP3.

Alan

"George" <pop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It will not let you do anything unless the CD matches what is on the
system now. So if you have SP3 then you need to slipstream to that to use
the repair install. Otherwise it will ask you to install the proper CD.


"Alan" <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi John,

If someone is at SP3, is it a requirement to slipstream SP3 to a Windows
Installation CD -- let's say SP2 -- before doing a repair install?

If one does a repair install with a Windows SP2 installation CD, won't
the OS revert back to SP2?

Alan

"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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