Xp home Cant login after spyware removal??

[Mike_b]

Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for the
holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow... After
clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before i could do
anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal.. uninstalled several search bars
etc in add.. remove programs. Also had 2 different virus programs, removed
one... The the reboot came into play...

I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then say's
saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she has two
accounts.. it does it with both, as well with the admin acct... in safe
mode.. slaved the drive to another pc renamed the profile hoping that i
would pick up new settings and be done with it... nope... any
suggestions???

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Mike_b wrote:
> Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for the
> holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow... After
> clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before i could
> do anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal.. uninstalled several
> search bars etc in add.. remove programs. Also had 2 different virus
> programs, removed one... The the reboot came into play...
>
> I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then
> say's saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she has
> two accounts.. it does it with both, as well with the admin acct...
> in safe mode.. slaved the drive to another pc renamed the profile
> hoping that i would pick up new settings and be done with it...
> nope... any suggestions???

Log in with the built-in administrator account in safe mode & check the
event logs for errors.

[MAP]

"Mike_b" wrote:

> Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for the
> holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow... After
> clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before i could do
> anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal.. uninstalled several search bars
> etc in add.. remove programs. Also had 2 different virus programs, removed
> one... The the reboot came into play...
>
> I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then say's
> saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she has two
> accounts.. it does it with both, as well with the admin acct... in safe
> mode.. slaved the drive to another pc renamed the profile hoping that i
> would pick up new settings and be done with it... nope... any
> suggestions???

May be it? this info is at least a month old it might have been fixed by now.
Good Luck
http://www.lavasofthelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html

[Mike_b]

I did that... The same thing happens.... load settings... saving settings...

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> Mike_b wrote:
> > Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for the
> > holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow... After
> > clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before i could
> > do anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal.. uninstalled several
> > search bars etc in add.. remove programs. Also had 2 different virus
> > programs, removed one... The the reboot came into play...
> >
> > I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then
> > say's saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she has
> > two accounts.. it does it with both, as well with the admin acct...
> > in safe mode.. slaved the drive to another pc renamed the profile
> > hoping that i would pick up new settings and be done with it...
> > nope... any suggestions???
>
> Log in with the built-in administrator account in safe mode & check the
> event logs for errors.
>
>
>

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Mike_b wrote:
> I did that... The same thing happens.... load settings... saving
> settings...

Using "Administrator" ?

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> Mike_b wrote:
>>> Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for
>>> the holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow...
>>> After clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before
>>> i could do anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal..
>>> uninstalled several search bars etc in add.. remove programs. Also
>>> had 2 different virus programs, removed one... The the reboot came
>>> into play...
>>>
>>> I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then
>>> say's saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she
>>> has two accounts.. it does it with both, as well with the admin
>>> acct... in safe mode.. slaved the drive to another pc renamed the
>>> profile hoping that i would pick up new settings and be done with
>>> it... nope... any suggestions???
>>
>> Log in with the built-in administrator account in safe mode & check
>> the event logs for errors.

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Mike_b wrote:

> Have a dell dem 2400 running xp home.. My friends kid is home for the
> holiday and brought her pc home. It was... running very slow... After
> clicking on the login icon , it took approx 20 minutes before i could do
> anything.. Ran adaware for spyware removal.. uninstalled several search bars
> etc in add.. remove programs. Also had 2 different virus programs, removed
> one... The the reboot came into play...
>
> I click on the logon icaon.. it say's loading prefs.... and then say's
> saving settins and returns back to the logon screen... she has two
> accounts..
Hi

Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe
http://www.lavasofthelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html

and

Blazefind problem
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Blazefind

More here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&as_drrb=q&q=logoff+wsaupdater+Userinit+group%3Amicrosoft.pub lic.windowsxp.*&as_qdr=&btnG=Search



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