Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!!!! XP Pro log in/immediate logoff

Thanks William, but that didn't work either. I burned the CD, got in to boot,
changed the registry, but still get logon/logg. I also tried to move the
elusive files that I could SEE RIGHT THERE, but I couldn't copy them to a
floppy or print or get Explorer to run so I could e-mail them somewhere or
connect to my other networked computers.

I'm giving up at this point. Thanks again.

"WTC" wrote:

Kren wrote:

Glen and William -- thank you very much for your replies -- I really,
really appreciate your help.

I tried what I could -- I can't boot to safe mode with command
prompt, so I couldn't try system restore.

And the last one from William, editing the registry on a networked
computer, I can't try because although the machine is networked when
it's properly logged on, I can't access it when it's not.

Hi Kren,

If you cannot access the machine via networked registry then please try
this method using a BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also remove the hard drive and attched the drive as a
slaved hard drive to a working Windows XP/2003 machine to perform these
steps.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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