Adobe KB article screws up XP Home system - no login

I was helping someone who has an XP Home system (Emachines). He was trying
to get a site to display that used Adobe Flash. He was sent to the Adobe
Flash downloads site, and it appeared that Flash installed but would not
display any Flash content.

After looking at several of the suggestions on the Adobe support site and
confirming that he had Administrator rights, we ended up at this KB article
on the Adobe site:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

This article points to a download of an MS tool called SubInAcL and then has
you create a batch file that does:

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f

So I had him do this. It didn't fix the problem with Flash, but when he
restarted the PC it displays the XP logo but he now never receives a login.

Even pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice does not bring up a login window.

Other than a re-install/repair install, is there anything I might try?


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