Re: URGENT. LOGIN PROBLEM WITH WINDOWS 2003

From: Ioannis Kirmitzoglou (psyxonova_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:04:31 +0200

Many thanks for your post.

The symptoms i have are quite different than those described at Q249321.
More specifically what is happening to my machine is that i can login
and i can see my desktop for a few seconds before it disappears and
start loading again (it seems like explorer is reseting). This keeps
happening until i log off using task manager which is the only thing i
can use while in this situation since i cannot access my desktop
(although i can see it for few seconds every time) using either my mouse
or my keyboard.

In Q299321 it says:

"SYMPTOMS
After you try to log on to your Windows 2000-based computer by using a
valid user name and password, the Loading your personal settings dialog
box is displayed, followed by the Saving your settings dialog box.
However, the desktop does not appear, and the Welcome to Windows login
screen is displayed again."

I never see the saving your settings dialog box or the "Welcome to
windows" logon screen.

Furthermore I had read Q249321 and Q223188 before posting my first
question and i have changed the userinit.exe setting in the registry
according to the instructions but without success. I also used
Winternals Commander to access my computer locally and everything seems
fine with the drive letters. C is my booting partition and nothing seems
out of order. I even have managed to ran a scan disk with special
software which revealed some bad sectors on my hard drive, but those
were already mapped by windows since they appeared few weeks ago after a
series of power failures in just one night.

I would like to try and check the security permissions at system and
user folders but i need some help here since i cannot logon locally to
my computer and i have no idea how i can do this remotely (since Remote
desktop has exactly the same strange behavior and Winternals does not
allow me to see folders permissions). Maybe it is possible with recovery
console or Safe Mode with command prompt but i don't know how (a
reference to a KB article that describes how to do that would be of
great help to me)

As you can see this is a very strange behavior for a windows 2003
machine but i can't afford to format it since it is too much job to set
it up from the beginning.

Thanks in advance,

Ioannis Kirmitzoglou (psyXonova)

PS. I am sorry for the continuous change of my name that appears at the
posts but i was too upset to notice that i had my nickname and not my
real name. This is the last time i change it.

Todd J Heron wrote:
> If the user logging on does not have proper NTFS permissions to their user
> profile, All Users Profile, or system files behavior such as you see can
> happen.
>
> - Check your NTFS permissions in the system32 directory.
> - Check the permissions on the drive where the paging file is located.
>
> Re-create the system default permissions.
>
> See:
> Q249321 (for the problem) & Q223188 (for the solution).
>

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