Re: Explorer / Desktop fails to run for User account login

Well that is good news that it works correctly now but too bad the log did
not show more detail on what was changed but I believe the log usually shows
just what was applied. I don't know if you have seen the link below or not
but you supposedly can configure regmon to capture the whole startup/logon
process though I have not tried it myself. More than a few times I have
given up trying to track down a problem's details and was just glad that I
was able to repair it without a lot of grief. You might want to start using
some image software like Ghost to backup your computer periodically so that
is can easily be restored in the future or at the very least backing up the
System State or registry. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/Information/BootTimeRegistryActivity.html

"TechoMad" <TechoMad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh JOY, JOY... (weeps for a couple of minutes in sheer relief).

I ran a secedit to repair just the regkeys area; after all, there is
nothing
to lose now, and that seemed the simplest step.

When it had finished, the whole session locked up completely, so I had to
do
a power-plug reset.

When it had rebooted, I can now log in both as administrator and as user
accounts, and my main desktop is all there, fully active.

I kept a log of the secedit run, but frustratingly, it just lists the
areas
it covered, but not what keys it had to reset, so I guess we will never
know.
The event log still shows a "not registered within timeout" for
{8EC21F74......} but only that; the others do not occur, so perhaps the
clue
is in them.

Thanks for being there...



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