Unable to logon to WinXP Pro

[SteveP]

I hope that someone can help me with this,
When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon box
and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the logon
screen...

Any Ideas?

Thank you

Steve

 

[C J.]

Steve,

You could try logging onto the built in "administrator" account in the same
manner, and see if using that account does the same thing.
By default - Administrator has no password unless one has been set. Also,
have you tried logging onto the problem account in Safe Mode.

If you're sucessful and are able to log into Administrator... then the
userprofile for your regular account could have somehow become corrupted.

Let us know.

SteveP <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I hope that someone can help me with this,
> When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon box
> and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
> seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the logon
> screen...
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thank you
>
> Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"SteveP" <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C3673B3C-E24A-4D6C-9B40-6C275A3F672F@microsoft.com...
>I hope that someone can help me with this,
> When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon box
> and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
> seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the logon
> screen...
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thank you
>
> Steve

This problem is usually caused by Windows not finding
the file userinit.exe where it expects it to be, often as a
consequence of malware infection or partition imaging
activities. What is the recent history of this machine?
Is it networked?

 

[Kelly]

Error Message: Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be Corrupted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011

Suggestions:

Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager. Locate the
entries for your hard disks and double click each entry. On the Policies
tab, uncheck Enable write caching.

You will see a performance decrease because of this, but if the corrupt
registry/user profiles problems cease, then you'll be certain of the cause.

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and
then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

Recovering XP using the Recover Console (Line 333) Right hand side:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Recovery Console Fix for XP SP1 (Line 58)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm



--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm


"SteveP" <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C3673B3C-E24A-4D6C-9B40-6C275A3F672F@microsoft.com...
>I hope that someone can help me with this,
> When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon box
> and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
> seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the logon
> screen...
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thank you
>
> Steve

 

[SteveP]

i did recently image the drive. I used Ghost 9 and it made me image the
individual partitions ( 2 of them ) rather then imaging the whole drive like
I wanted.
I have tried logging into all of the accounts on the system - all act the
same way.

Thank you for your help.


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "SteveP" <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C3673B3C-E24A-4D6C-9B40-6C275A3F672F@microsoft.com...
> >I hope that someone can help me with this,
> > When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon box
> > and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
> > seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the logon
> > screen...
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Steve
>
> This problem is usually caused by Windows not finding
> the file userinit.exe where it expects it to be, often as a
> consequence of malware infection or partition imaging
> activities. What is the recent history of this machine?
> Is it networked?
>
>
>

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Your problem is exactly the same as the one described in the
post "XP pc logs in then out again", posted in this newsgroup
about 33 hours ago. Have a look there!


"SteveP" <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D5A0A6C-87A0-4AA0-86E5-5EAA0E027C8B@microsoft.com...
>i did recently image the drive. I used Ghost 9 and it made me image the
> individual partitions ( 2 of them ) rather then imaging the whole drive
> like
> I wanted.
> I have tried logging into all of the accounts on the system - all act the
> same way.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "SteveP" <SteveP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C3673B3C-E24A-4D6C-9B40-6C275A3F672F@microsoft.com...
>> >I hope that someone can help me with this,
>> > When I go to logon to WinXP everything is fine - I have the user logon
>> > box
>> > and when I put my name and password in it will act normal for about 30
>> > seconds - then it says " logging out of Windows " and go back to the
>> > logon
>> > screen...
>> >
>> > Any Ideas?
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> >
>> > Steve
>>
>> This problem is usually caused by Windows not finding
>> the file userinit.exe where it expects it to be, often as a
>> consequence of malware infection or partition imaging
>> activities. What is the recent history of this machine?
>> Is it networked?
>>
>>
>>