Login/Logoff

[Dan]

HELP! Recently, when I login to my Windows XP Home
machine using either the standard or Welcome screens, it
takes about 5 minutes to get past the Loading Personal
Settings screen to finally open. When I look at the log
files, I see the two Audit Trail Failures that look as
follows:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 529
Date: date
Time: time
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: %computer name%
Description:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: %user name%
Domain: %computer name%
Logon Type: 2
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: %computer name%

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Logon
Event ID: 680
Date: date
Time: time
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: %computer name%
Description:
Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Logon account: %user name%
Source Workstation: %computer name%
Error Code: 0xC000006A

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I tried the advice given in Microsoft's article 305822,
but this did NOT seem to solve the issue. Does ANYONE
have any ideas/suggestions? Please note that I have the
XP Home Edition, not Professional. Thank you!!

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Hi Dan,

It looks like system is configured to auto-login [with wrong password =
entered earlier].
Once logged in: Click [Start] [Run] type: rundll32 netplwiz.dll, =
ClearAutoLogon

This should disable auto-login. If not, try this:

Click Start, Run and type "control userpasswords2", and click Ok.=20
Enable "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" =
option, and click Ok.=20

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm

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"Dan" > wrote in message =
...
HELP! Recently, when I login to my Windows XP Home=20
machine using either the standard or Welcome screens, it=20
takes about 5 minutes to get past the Loading Personal=20
Settings screen to finally open. When I look at the log=20
files, I see the two Audit Trail Failures that look as=20
follows:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 529
Date: date
Time: time
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: %computer name%
Description:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: %user name%
Domain: %computer name%
Logon Type: 2
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: %computer name%

For more information, see Help and Support Center at=20
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Logon
Event ID: 680
Date: date
Time: time
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: %computer name%
Description:
Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Logon account: %user name%
Source Workstation: %computer name%
Error Code: 0xC000006A

For more information, see Help and Support Center at=20
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I tried the advice given in Microsoft's article 305822,=20
but this did NOT seem to solve the issue. Does ANYONE=20
have any ideas/suggestions? Please note that I have the=20
XP Home Edition, not Professional. Thank you!!