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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and
indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to restart & run remove process at next restart. Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the machine with the same previous account, it just logs me off. Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into the system???? |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
G'Day Bill,
Boot to Safe Mode (because it's Home Ed) and try to log in as "Administrator", leave the password blank. -- Regards, Pat Garard Australia ______________________________________ |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
tried that too and it didn't work...
Clicked on the Admin accout to Login Get msg Loading Settings Then get msg Saving Settings Finally logout and back to the "Login" screen to choose acct to login into... -----Original Message----- G'Day Bill, Boot to Safe Mode (because it's Home Ed) and try to log in as "Administrator", leave the password blank. -- Regards, Pat Garard Australia ______________________________________ . |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows
XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- "Bill" wrote in message ... Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to restart & run remove process at next restart. Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the machine with the same previous account, it just logs me off. Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into the system???? |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
This may not be your issue, but I can duplicate the behavior that you're =
experiencing by removing the registry value indicated in the folloowing: Is the machine on a network? If so, you can try the following. Boot = the affected computer and let it get to the Welcome Screen. Then go to = the other computer on the network, log on and click Start, Run and enter = REGEDIT File, Connect Network Registry. Enter the machine name of = the affected computer and click OK. You may be prompted for a username = and password. If so, this must be a user account on the affected = machine, with Administrator privileges. You'll see a new branch in the Registry that corresponds to the affected = computer. Expand this branch and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon In the right pane, look for a value called UserInit. If present, this = value should read: C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe, The comma on the end is intentional and it must be there. If the value = is different, double click the UserInit value and change it. If XP is = not installed on C: on the affected machine, then change the path = accordingly. If the machine is not on a network, the steps in the following KB = article will help you. The steps must be followed exactly. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=3D307545 How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from = starting And yes, I realize your system will boot, but you can't get past the = logon. This will allow you to restore your system back to a point = before you ran AdAware/SpyBot. --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "Bill" wrote in message = ... Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and=20 indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to=20 restart & run remove process at next restart. =20 Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came=20 back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the=20 machine with the same previous account, it just logs me=20 off. =20 =20 Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same=20 thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). =20 Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into=20 the system???? =20 |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the =
contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the = "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To = Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html --=20 =20 "Bill" wrote in message ... Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to restart & run remove process at next restart. Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the machine with the same previous account, it just logs me off. Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into the system???? =20 |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove
me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Many Thanks to all for your assistance. Will take look and report back ... -----Original Message----- Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- . |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
According to the very end of the article, they specify a DEFS version =
that won't cause this problem. I would assume future DEFs won't either, = and that the issue will be addressed in a later release. --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "GTS" x wrote in message ... Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue = drove me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. --=20 =20 "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted = the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as = the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix = =20 --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "GTS" x wrote in message = ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html --=20 =20 |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove
me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove
me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove
me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Thanks Doug. I always appreciate your great work here. This issue drove
me nuts the first time I ran into it on a client's laptop. Hopefully Lavasoft will address it in their next release. -- "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html -- |
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Unable to Login - Windows Xp Home Edition
Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the =
contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the = "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To = Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html --=20 =20 "Bill" wrote in message ... Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to restart & run remove process at next restart. Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the machine with the same previous account, it just logs me off. Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into the system???? =20 |
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Nice find, GTS. I'd actually gone in on another machine and deleted the =
contents of the UserInit value to test, and got the same behavior as the = "wsaupdater" file not being present. Too bad there's no "simple" fix --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "GTS" x wrote in message ... See Lavasoft Knowledge Base Article 04060901 - Unable to Log On To = Windows XP After Removing wsaupdater.exe http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html --=20 =20 "Bill" wrote in message ... Was running Lavasoft Ad_ware 6.181 when it complete and indicated that their were "spyware" in memory & need to restart & run remove process at next restart. Click "ok" and attempted to restart PC. When XP came back up and tried to log back in as the admin to the machine with the same previous account, it just logs me off. Tried boot system into safe mode, too, but does the same thing (attempt to login in, but just logout again). Short of reimaging again, is there another way back into the system???? =20 |
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