Re: Explorer / Desktop fails to run for User account login
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:22:09 -0600
Gosh I have seen that before but can't remember all the exact reasons.
Anyhow look in the application/system logs to see if anything is recorded
there and make sure that users have needed permissions to the root/drive
folder, \windows folders and subfolders, documents and settings folders,
their user profile folder, the userinit.exe file, and of course
explorer.exe. Typically users group would have read/list/execute permissions
and full control to their user profile. You could also use the secedit
command to reset security settings back to default defined levels as
explained in the link below and you can use /areas to specify specific areas
if you do not want to do them all. I believe a reboot may be needed after
the command is done to test a problem users access. PS don't try using that
command on a Windows 2003 Server ever due to a problem with Windows 2003
default/repair security templates for services. --- Steve
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222
"TechoMad" <TechoMad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FA7CA73C-C49A-4B6B-9092-B38C63ABC8B4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've mangled something in my main XP system, and I'm not sure what or how,
but when logging in with a user account, all I get is a "clear" screen, no
desktop, no taskbar, no icons. However, I can run task manager and start
any
number of programs from that perfectly well, but explorer itself (or
things
related like C:\) simply refuse to run when I try with "New Task...".
Logging in as an administrator account, everything is just fine. Whilst
the
computer is on a domain, both local and domain accounts show the same
behaviour.
As System Restore to the earliest checkpoint made no difference.
Just before this happened, I was struggling with VB6 which has a mind of
its
own in that it sometimes failes to load a project with "access denied" and
a
lot of other things. This is usually cured by running it as administrator,
then as user. Something in the registry must get "reset". I was having a
look
at HKCR\Licences as this seems to be the area involved, and added, then
remove a read permission to HKCR, to see if it would help. It made matters
very much worse. VB6 now fails to load lots of other things and the wierd
user login symptoms appeared.
I have checked with my laptop (which runs a very similar configuration for
VB) and the HKCR tree looks the same for permissions, so I don't know what
I
messed up, if it was around there at all.
I tried regmon and filemon to see if anything was denied, but only a
couple
of (seemingly) inconsequential registry keys were denied. They were early
enough on that it seemed unlikely they were prime reason for exit. Filemon
shows explorer going around the system and user environments; it looked
reasonable, but then everything just gets close and explorer exits.
Anyone have any ideas on where to look, as this is a critical project
computer (aren't they all) and the prospect of reinstalling does NOT
appeal,
due to the large number of programs installed. As ever, the backup is
ancient
because all data is stored on the server. I have alternatives in the
meanwhile, but less than convient.
Anyone have any ideas... please?
.
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