Windows Freezes at Logon after DL Windows updates


This computer had no passwords set for either Administrator or
Maureen Kennedy, therefore there was NO password for me to
remember or forget. And I always had gotten into computer with
minilogon (one user) and never even had seen the welcome screen
logon screen before.

Working late at night on 9/10 and into morning of 9/11 when I
ended and was closing down desktop computer which I don't use alot,
windows screen came up and
said it had files to install and to let it do so and it would
close down computer. Being tired, I did not bother to see what
updates it was processing and just click go ahead and install.

The next day, the computer had shut me out starting windows
normally and then starting deskstop background with picture but
with NO icons and NO taskbar (therefore no start button either) AND
THEN s
witched to the Welcome Screen with the chess pieces and my name.
I clicked my name Maureen Kennedy, and it would start to say it
was loading my personal preferences, then switch to loggin me off,
then saying saving your settings. Then the bottom of the welcome
screen turned up a red button to turn off Maureen Kennedy. Then
when you clicked turn off, the normal turn off screen came up and
windows shut down.

Trying the config at F8 of Directory Services Restore mode, made
it run a little program where it said C drive was clean but
couldn't read bunch of symbols (which seemed to indicate to me the D
partition). The 80 GIG Hard drive is in two partitions with C and D
drive on HD. Then it went on to the same Welcome screen again.

I have tried every configuration that F8 will bring up. In hitting
Safe Mode a black screen came up that filled a whole page saying
something like multi rd disk loading a bunch of drivers and then
into a totally black screen that says safe mode in all 4 corners
and across the top says Win XP (R) build 2600 XPSP_Sp2_gdr.070227
-2254 Service Pack 2 That screen shows administrator logon
screen, and clicking OK on that brings up message "That the system
could not log you on. Make sure your username and domain are
correct. Then type your password again."

I don't know where this DOMAIN thing came from because I don't
belong nor ever set up a domain of any kind. I am just one simple
60 year old woman with a desktop computer and a laptop.
Now I have had slaved a second HD to that computer and used that
HD to backup info from the Master HD which is the one causing all
the problems now. So I took out the HD's and reversed slave into
master and master into slave. With the new HD, I CAN access all
the information on the bad Windows startup HD AND I see that
something I had downloaded from windows that evening created a NEW
Userser name in my documents and settings - called
Administrator.SONYVAIO670. That subDirectory was established that
same day of 9/11 and it was the only thing on that hard drive that
was new. SonyVaio670 is the Computer name I used on that hard
drive. And in the Documents and Settings folder there are two
other weird subdirectorys - one is Temp and the other is
Temp.Administrator.SONYVAIO670 . Those two subdirectories
seemed to be established in 2006 and have just been hanging in the
documents and settings all this time - the only thing I think I
found is that they may have been created when I was going to
switch my AOL from AOL7 to AOL9 and I decided I didn't like it
and removed AOL9 back to AOL 7 as those are the only directory
that has the same dates as these temp subdirectories in Documents
and Folders section.

So to recap here - I never set passwords on this computer HD that
is requiring a password. Something I DL from windows picked up
and established a new "user?" in Documents and Settings calling it
Administrator.SONYVAIO670 (yes I tried logging in with this and it
didn't work either). The Hard drive is accessible and readable as
a slave.

The only other niggling thing is whether I set up a "network" or
not - Does setting up wireless connection to internet set up a
network? One file I read about Nt user says something like
congratulations you have set up wireless network. Just incase it
was that, I used the wireless network number as password, it
didn't work, tried the WEP number from wireless and that didn't
work either under Administrator.

So I still cannot access the HD when it is master and not slave.
I would much prefer to be able to do so, because the other HD
hasn't had updates on widows since 2004 and I would have to
install alot of programs inorder for the registries to be right on
that older HD for the programs to work.

I figured out how to use the OEM recovery disks Sony gave with
computer but I am reluctant to use them right now because it seems
to indicate it would do complete wipe of C drive but leaving info
OK on D partition.

Thanking you in advance for any help you can provide on this really
weird situation.

Maureen


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