Re: XP PRO immediate logoff occurs before desktop is displayed

From: Skipton (nospam.lpr59_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/14/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:42:23 +0800

Thanks - I tried recovering from the "repair" folder containing registry
files from initial install.

Result:
The problem remained as described earlier - immediate logoff occurred.

Q1:
Does anyone know if username/password info is part of registry?

After this change I was worse off because the recovered registry password
for administrator was different - and I don't know it! so I was unable to
access the recovery console to reverse the change - I wish I had known
that. To get back I ran setup from the CD and selected the "repair current
installation" option this resulted in no improvement to the problem - an
immediate logoff still occurs when I try to logon. I can get back in to
recovery console now that setup asked me to set the password. The dates of
items in the "repair" folder are now different so I assume setup has
rebuilt them.

Q2:Anyone know if this is right?

Q3:Anyone got a new idea?

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:54:08 +0800, Melvin Ho <hokwNOSPAM@pacific.net.sg>
wrote:

> 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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