Re: XP logs on & logs off repeatedly - HELP !!!

From: Murtaza (NoEmail_at_Please.com)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:18:38 +0500

Did you playing with "Services Console" as in Control Panel>Admin
Toos>Services????

"Maerko" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message
news:9557DFA0AE825471AE@127.0.0.1...
> "Gregg Cattanach" <gcattanach-SKIP-@prodigy.net> wrote:
> >
> > You may have had some spyware "blazefind" removed by Ad-aware.
> > Ad-aware doesn't fix a registry entry that points to a key
> > file needed to boot up.
>
> -- snip --
>
> > The next time you tried to logon the system needs to to run
> > wsaupdater.exe which it can't find. Therefore: FAILED LOGON
> > -> LOGOFF
> >
> > The workaround to let you get logged on is to copy
> > userinit.exe to wsaupdater.exe. It's as simple as that....
> >
>
>
> Greg, unfortunately your solution has not worked for me.
>
> I created a dummy wasupdater.exe in C:windows\system32\ based on
> userinit.exe. But it didn't help.
>
> By the way, it was easier for me to boot to my old XP system and
> then do the file copying on my old partition.
>
> ----
>
> Very recently I used some registry cleaners and registry tweakers
> (like X-Setup Pro with it's 1,700 settings! http://www.x-
> setup.net/product/). Maybe one of those tools has made my registry
> now look for a non-existent program on bootup.
>
> IF this is true then it makes me ask these questions:
>
> (1) Is there a way to get rebooting XP system to stop its boot
> sequence and to put up an error message when it can't find a
> particular program?
>
> (2) Is there a registry editor which I can run on my *old* XP
> partition and then edit the registry in the *other* failing
> partition?
>
> (3) Is there a tool which tells you what programs are called to run
> at startup (like 'StartUpList' or 'HijackThis') but not for the same
> partition that the program runs in but for *another* XP partition?
>
>
> Maybe someone here can advise?

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