Re: XP PRO immediate logoff occurs before desktop is displayed

From: Melvin Ho (hokwNOSPAM_at_pacific.net.sg)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:54:08 +0800

Hi, just some suggestions..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545
How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents Windows XP from
Starting
or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP

Good Luck! 

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"Skipton" <nospam.lpr59@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a laptop running Win XP PRO, it is a standalone machine with
> only dialup networking to the Internet. The machine startup has
> no error messages that I can see. An immediate loggoff occurs when you
> try to login. Here is what happens:
>
> 1. "Logon to Windows" dialog box appears, you enter username
> "Administrator" (there is no password on this machine).
>
> 2. Message in "Pleas wait..." dialog box "loading your personal
> settings" appears and background colour changes.
>
> 3. Within a second before any desktop and icons appear the message in
> "Pleas wait..." dialog box changes to "logging off...".
>
> 4. Message in "Please wait..." dialog box changes to "saving your
> settings" (I only see this message on first attempt after re-booting).
>
> 5. After 4-8 seconds it is back to Logon to Windows" dialog box
> appears.
>
> The same behaviour occurs for usernames "default", "mark" and leaving
> the username blank. In all cases the is no password for the username
> (did try one and got the wrong password error message). I have gone
> through all the options from advanced boot options menu (ie. "F8" on
> boot up) and the same thing happens for username "Administrator". In
> other words I can't even get into the machine in SAFE MODE (arrrgh!).
>
>
> I was not able to boot directly from the XP PRO CD although an old
> WIN98 boot CD does work but the volume is NTFS so that is no good :-(
>
> I did boot from XP boot floppies (6 disk set) and bring up the Windows
> Recover Console and logged in as "administrator" with no difficulty.
> After doing a XP boot with logging I looked at the NTBTLOG.TXT from
> Windows Recover Console prompt - I could not see anything that I
> thought would help.
>
> I have access to the CD drive in recovery console.
>
> I have checked AUTOEXEC.BAT in case it was encrypted (as per a a
> report on BugTraq that can cause a similar behaviour - Is there
> anything I can check?
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion on what to do next?
>
> All I can think of is to reinstall from the XP boot floppy setup :-(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Skipton
> Perth, Australia
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