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Larry
Guest
Re: autoruns mistake
Hey John I just finished up doing a repair install. what a hassel when you
don't know what you are doing. I think everything is back to where it should
be.
Took me 6 1/2 hours today to locate all my device drivers to reinstall
them. I guess that's all I lost in the repair, anyway I guess all is well
again, and thanks for your help Larry (Now know well enough to keep hand off
what you don't know)
"John John (MVP)" wrote:
> The other method would be to put the disk in another Windows XP machine
> or in a USB enclosure and use Regedit and the Load Hive feature to
> change the Winlogon Userinit value. If you have a knowledgeable friend
> or other to help you they could put your hard disk in their XP machine
> and use the method shown here: http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm
> to access the registry.
>
> The value to check is:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>
> Value Name: Userinit
> Value Type: REG_SZ
> Value data: C:\WINNT\system32\userinit.exe,
>
> Note the required comma at the end.
>
> If you bring the pc to a repair shop print these instructions and ask
> them if they can check it for you, they should be able to do this quite
> easily.
>
> John
>
> Larry wrote:
> > My HD has just one partition. and I don't understand what you mean by saying
> > what methods i have available to me. And I sure don't know what a
> > slipstream is. Maybe I will just bring it to the shop and let them have at
> > it."John John (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I don't think that you will be able to fix this from the Recovery
> >>Console, you cannot edit the registry by way of the Recovery Console.
> >>If you feel confident enough to mount the drive in another Windows XP
> >>computer or in a USB enclosure then you can access the damaged registry
> >>and try to fix things. If you cannot mount the disk in another XP
> >>machine or USB enclosure then this will be a very difficult problem to
> >>solve, you will need to use a special boot disk with an onboard registry
> >>editor, building such a boot disk is not a trivial matter, it takes
> >>several hours and it takes advanced computer skills.
> >>
> >>Does your hard drive have more than one partition? Installing a second
> >>"parallel" copy of Windows on the second partition is another method
> >>that can be used to access the damaged registry on the broken
> >>installation. Otherwise you can try a Repair Install, but that will
> >>require that you "slipstream" SP3 to your Windows CD.
> >>
> >>Fixing the damaged registry is not too hard to do, the hard part is
> >>finding a way to access the registry. Tell us which methods are
> >>available to you and we will see what we can suggest.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>
> >>Larry wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hey John Yes my system is a stand alone desktop and yes I tried different
> >>>boots safemood, safemode with command prompt boot ot last known good
> >>>settings. If I had a boot disk maybe?????? I don't know a whole lot about
> >>>computers, enough to make messes. I tried to boot from xp setup disk as well
> >>>something about recover consoul. Don't know anything about dos commands. Any
> >>>how
> >>>
> >>>"John John (MVP)" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It sounds like you disabled the Userinit entry at:
> >>>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> >>>>
> >>>>You need to access the registry and restore this value. Is your machine
> >>>>a standalone or is it part of a network?
> >>>>
> >>>>John
> >>>>
> >>>>Larry wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I made the mistake of trying microsoft autoruns utility this morning, withnot
> >>>>>so good results. Thinking (This is the problem (THINKING) that i knew what
> >>>>>was going on I unchecked a bunch of stuff. Now I can't get to the system
> >>>>>restore to undo the mess I made.
> >>>>>I'm running XP Pro SP3. I trun on the pc and it askes for a logon and
> >>>>>password, never done that before. I put in my username which is already
> >>>>>listed no password and click ok. It boots to the desktop, but before it can
> >>>>>load any icons it shuts down and again askes for my logon. I can do this till
> >>>>>doomesday comes.
> >>>>>Here is my question, How can I get past this logon issue and set my pc back
> >>>>>to an earleir time. Thanks of any help Larry
> >>>>
>
Hey John I just finished up doing a repair install. what a hassel when you
don't know what you are doing. I think everything is back to where it should
be.
Took me 6 1/2 hours today to locate all my device drivers to reinstall
them. I guess that's all I lost in the repair, anyway I guess all is well
again, and thanks for your help Larry (Now know well enough to keep hand off
what you don't know)
"John John (MVP)" wrote:
> The other method would be to put the disk in another Windows XP machine
> or in a USB enclosure and use Regedit and the Load Hive feature to
> change the Winlogon Userinit value. If you have a knowledgeable friend
> or other to help you they could put your hard disk in their XP machine
> and use the method shown here: http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm
> to access the registry.
>
> The value to check is:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>
> Value Name: Userinit
> Value Type: REG_SZ
> Value data: C:\WINNT\system32\userinit.exe,
>
> Note the required comma at the end.
>
> If you bring the pc to a repair shop print these instructions and ask
> them if they can check it for you, they should be able to do this quite
> easily.
>
> John
>
> Larry wrote:
> > My HD has just one partition. and I don't understand what you mean by saying
> > what methods i have available to me. And I sure don't know what a
> > slipstream is. Maybe I will just bring it to the shop and let them have at
> > it."John John (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I don't think that you will be able to fix this from the Recovery
> >>Console, you cannot edit the registry by way of the Recovery Console.
> >>If you feel confident enough to mount the drive in another Windows XP
> >>computer or in a USB enclosure then you can access the damaged registry
> >>and try to fix things. If you cannot mount the disk in another XP
> >>machine or USB enclosure then this will be a very difficult problem to
> >>solve, you will need to use a special boot disk with an onboard registry
> >>editor, building such a boot disk is not a trivial matter, it takes
> >>several hours and it takes advanced computer skills.
> >>
> >>Does your hard drive have more than one partition? Installing a second
> >>"parallel" copy of Windows on the second partition is another method
> >>that can be used to access the damaged registry on the broken
> >>installation. Otherwise you can try a Repair Install, but that will
> >>require that you "slipstream" SP3 to your Windows CD.
> >>
> >>Fixing the damaged registry is not too hard to do, the hard part is
> >>finding a way to access the registry. Tell us which methods are
> >>available to you and we will see what we can suggest.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>
> >>Larry wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hey John Yes my system is a stand alone desktop and yes I tried different
> >>>boots safemood, safemode with command prompt boot ot last known good
> >>>settings. If I had a boot disk maybe?????? I don't know a whole lot about
> >>>computers, enough to make messes. I tried to boot from xp setup disk as well
> >>>something about recover consoul. Don't know anything about dos commands. Any
> >>>how
> >>>
> >>>"John John (MVP)" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It sounds like you disabled the Userinit entry at:
> >>>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> >>>>
> >>>>You need to access the registry and restore this value. Is your machine
> >>>>a standalone or is it part of a network?
> >>>>
> >>>>John
> >>>>
> >>>>Larry wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I made the mistake of trying microsoft autoruns utility this morning, withnot
> >>>>>so good results. Thinking (This is the problem (THINKING) that i knew what
> >>>>>was going on I unchecked a bunch of stuff. Now I can't get to the system
> >>>>>restore to undo the mess I made.
> >>>>>I'm running XP Pro SP3. I trun on the pc and it askes for a logon and
> >>>>>password, never done that before. I put in my username which is already
> >>>>>listed no password and click ok. It boots to the desktop, but before it can
> >>>>>load any icons it shuts down and again askes for my logon. I can do this till
> >>>>>doomesday comes.
> >>>>>Here is my question, How can I get past this logon issue and set my pc back
> >>>>>to an earleir time. Thanks of any help Larry
> >>>>
>