Strange Boot

[Dan McLinn]

I'm trying to help a friend whose laptop accidentaly got
left on until the battery went dead. She switched
batteries but the Laptop (it uses XP Home), now boots to
her desk top picture for about 2 seconds and then goes to
what looks like the XP log on screen. Trouble is there are
no accounts to choose to log on with nor any other
buttons. It just sets there now matter what I do. I have
tried last known good, and trying to get to the command
line (by pressing F8) but it just ignores me and goes
through the above routine. Any help will be appreciated.

[John A]

Try this:

Press F8 during the boot process. Select Safe Mode. You should get a
log-on screen with an administrator account enabled. Once you are in,
go to Control Panel - User Accounts and you should be able to fix /
setup user account.

John Allen


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:32:33 -0800, "Dan McLinn"
> wrote:

>I'm trying to help a friend whose laptop accidentaly got
>left on until the battery went dead. She switched
>batteries but the Laptop (it uses XP Home), now boots to
>her desk top picture for about 2 seconds and then goes to
>what looks like the XP log on screen. Trouble is there are
>no accounts to choose to log on with nor any other
>buttons. It just sets there now matter what I do. I have
>tried last known good, and trying to get to the command
>line (by pressing F8) but it just ignores me and goes
>through the above routine. Any help will be appreciated.

Tried this fix. When I select Safe Mode, it goes to the
same screen as before. The screen looks like a normal XP
login screen but doesn't have any accounts (not even an
administrator account)and no other on screen buttons.
>-----Original Message-----
>Try this:
>
>Press F8 during the boot process. Select Safe Mode. You
should get a
>log-on screen with an administrator account enabled. Once
you are in,
>go to Control Panel - User Accounts and you should be
able to fix /
>setup user account.
>
>John Allen
>
>
>On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:32:33 -0800, "Dan McLinn"
> wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to help a friend whose laptop accidentaly got
>>left on until the battery went dead. She switched
>>batteries but the Laptop (it uses XP Home), now boots to
>>her desk top picture for about 2 seconds and then goes
to
>>what looks like the XP log on screen. Trouble is there
are
>>no accounts to choose to log on with nor any other
>>buttons. It just sets there now matter what I do. I have
>>tried last known good, and trying to get to the command
>>line (by pressing F8) but it just ignores me and goes
>>through the above routine. Any help will be appreciated.
>
>.
>

[Johnathan]

Press <ctrl+alt+del> twice to access the admin login screen

> wrote in message
...
> Tried this fix. When I select Safe Mode, it goes to the
> same screen as before. The screen looks like a normal XP
> login screen but doesn't have any accounts (not even an
> administrator account)and no other on screen buttons.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Try this:
> >
> >Press F8 during the boot process. Select Safe Mode. You
> should get a
> >log-on screen with an administrator account enabled. Once
> you are in,
> >go to Control Panel - User Accounts and you should be
> able to fix /
> >setup user account.
> >
> >John Allen
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:32:33 -0800, "Dan McLinn"
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I'm trying to help a friend whose laptop accidentaly got
> >>left on until the battery went dead. She switched
> >>batteries but the Laptop (it uses XP Home), now boots to
> >>her desk top picture for about 2 seconds and then goes
> to
> >>what looks like the XP log on screen. Trouble is there
> are
> >>no accounts to choose to log on with nor any other
> >>buttons. It just sets there now matter what I do. I have
> >>tried last known good, and trying to get to the command
> >>line (by pressing F8) but it just ignores me and goes
> >>through the above routine. Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> >.
> >