Re: HELP with Windows XP Problem

MonMod wrote:
When I start Windows it loads up (I can see the wallpaper, but no
icons or taskbar). But then logs out and takes me to the Windows
login screen (which I never used to see, before as there is only one
user on my PC). click on the one and only icon and it begins to log
me in and then immediately says, "Logging Out - saving personal
settings". Whenever I try and login the same problem happens over
and over, it attempts to loads up and then automatically logs out.

I have tried starting Windows in safe mode and 'last known good
configuration'. With the exact same problem.

Tried logging in safe mode with the command prompt and it spawns the
situation above with one additional item on the page - an
administrator user login icon. When I hit the admin icon, same
situation above. And, obviously, I do not get the command prompt I
ask for.

I have no operating system discs since the computer came from DELL.
The only disc I have is the Drivers and Utilities disc.

This problem started after I completed two tasks (which I was doing
simultaneously) 1) defraging hard drive using Nortons Optimization
tool, and 2) removing items from the start-up menu, again directed to
that screen through Norton.

Had you come to this newsgroup sooner, you would have learned three things:

1. Make a distribution CD from the hidden partition on your hard drive,
2. Don't use anything bearing the name "Norton" or "Symantec," and
3. I forget the third thing.


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