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ohaya
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:25 am    Post subject: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying userin Reply with quote
Hi,

My daughter's Windows XP SP2 system starting having a problem as
follows:

1) Boot system
2) XP Logon page appears
3) I click a user, and attempt to login
4) It says "Loading preferences", then almost immediately logs me off

I've tried the fix of booting to the XP CD, going to Repair, and copying
C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to wsaupdater.exe, but after typing
"exit" in the Repair Console and going back to the logon page, I am
seeing exactly the same behavior.

I've tried this several times, and checked, and the userinit.exe file
and the wsaupdater.exe file are exactly the same size in
C:\windows\system32.

Can anyone help with this? Is there something else that I need to do?

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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WTC
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying us Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C0AE5.3050167A@cox.net...
Quote:
Hi,

My daughter's Windows XP SP2 system starting having a problem as
follows:

1) Boot system
2) XP Logon page appears
3) I click a user, and attempt to login
4) It says "Loading preferences", then almost immediately logs me off

I've tried the fix of booting to the XP CD, going to Repair, and
copying
C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to wsaupdater.exe, but after typing
"exit" in the Repair Console and going back to the logon page, I am
seeing exactly the same behavior.

I've tried this several times, and checked, and the userinit.exe file
and the wsaupdater.exe file are exactly the same size in
C:\windows\system32.

Can anyone help with this? Is there something else that I need to do?


The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter rather than
userinit.exe. Open the registry on the system that is causing you
trouble via a networked
machine, navigate to "HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices" and delete all values
that look like this:

\DosDevices\C

--
William
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ohaya
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying us Reply with quote
WTC wrote:
Quote:

"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C0AE5.3050167A@cox.net...
Hi,

My daughter's Windows XP SP2 system starting having a problem as
follows:

1) Boot system
2) XP Logon page appears
3) I click a user, and attempt to login
4) It says "Loading preferences", then almost immediately logs me off

I've tried the fix of booting to the XP CD, going to Repair, and
copying
C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to wsaupdater.exe, but after typing
"exit" in the Repair Console and going back to the logon page, I am
seeing exactly the same behavior.

I've tried this several times, and checked, and the userinit.exe file
and the wsaupdater.exe file are exactly the same size in
C:\windows\system32.

Can anyone help with this? Is there something else that I need to do?


The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter rather than
userinit.exe. Open the registry on the system that is causing you
trouble via a networked
machine, navigate to "HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices" and delete all values
that look like this:

\DosDevices\C


William,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't connect to her machine (with
regedit). I get a popup error box "Error Connecting Network Registry".
I have a feeling from the message that the remote registry service may
not be running on her machine :(.

FYI, I have also tried booting to Safemode, and get the same results
when trying to login, i.e., it just logs off.

I've also just tried expanding USERINIT.EX_ from the XP CD into
C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe and c:\windows\system32\wsaupdater.exe,
and still get the same results :(...

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Jim
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WTC
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C446A.8BF21D04@cox.net...
Quote:


WTC wrote:

"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C3F5B.B615A4B7@cox.net...

The file is probably too big to do this, on my machine it is
[6,400
kb].
But in theory you could.



Ok, I now have a bootable BartPE CD. Really weird!!

I started regedit, and did the "Load Hive". There is no
HKLM\<hivename>\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, but there is a
HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices?


Rename it to MountedDevices and delete all value that look like
\DosDevices\A, \DosDevices\B and so on.

You should export the key first, so if something goes wrong. right
click
on the "MountedDevices?" and select Export.

I think this will solve your problem,

Sorry for being obtuse, but I don't understand what you mean by
"Rename
it to MountedDevices"? What is "it"?

Also, should I delete ALL of the
"HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices\DosDevices\*" keys, or just the
..\DosDevices\C?

FYI, I already tried deleting the \DosDevices\C (only) and rebooted,
and
still have the same problem.


Sorry I misunderstood, about the renaming part. I thought it read
"HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices?".

Yes I would delete all the "DosDevices\*".

--
William
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
WTC wrote:
Quote:

"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C3F5B.B615A4B7@cox.net...

The file is probably too big to do this, on my machine it is [6,400
kb].
But in theory you could.



Ok, I now have a bootable BartPE CD. Really weird!!

I started regedit, and did the "Load Hive". There is no
HKLM\<hivename>\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, but there is a
HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices?


Rename it to MountedDevices and delete all value that look like
\DosDevices\A, \DosDevices\B and so on.

You should export the key first, so if something goes wrong. right click
on the "MountedDevices?" and select Export.

I think this will solve your problem,

William,

Sorry for being obtuse, but I don't understand what you mean by "Rename
it to MountedDevices"? What is "it"?

Also, should I delete ALL of the
"HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices\DosDevices\*" keys, or just the
...\DosDevices\C?

FYI, I already tried deleting the \DosDevices\C (only) and rebooted, and
still have the same problem.

Jim
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WTC
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C3F5B.B615A4B7@cox.net...
Quote:

The file is probably too big to do this, on my machine it is [6,400
kb].
But in theory you could.



Ok, I now have a bootable BartPE CD. Really weird!!

I started regedit, and did the "Load Hive". There is no
HKLM\<hivename>\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, but there is a
HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices?


Rename it to MountedDevices and delete all value that look like
\DosDevices\A, \DosDevices\B and so on.

You should export the key first, so if something goes wrong. right click
on the "MountedDevices?" and select Export.

I think this will solve your problem,

--
William
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
Quote:
The file is probably too big to do this, on my machine it is [6,400 kb].
But in theory you could.



William,

Ok, I now have a bootable BartPE CD. Really weird!!

I started regedit, and did the "Load Hive". There is no
HKLM\<hivename>\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, but there is a
HKLM\<hivename>\MountedDevices?

Jim
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WTC
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C31CE.EC27EDFA@cox.net...
Quote:


ohaya wrote:


Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a
stupid
question)

William,

It's been awhile, but "yes", I have.

The download is still going... it's about 1/2 way through, as it's
kind
of slow (~100 KB/sec)...

I'll post back after the download is complete and I've had a chance
to
burn and tried to boot the CD.


I forgot to mention in my earlier posts that her C: drive is FAT32,
not
NTFS. Since that's the case, couldn't I just boot a Win98 floppy, and
copy the registry hive files off of the hard drive, take the floppy
over
to a different XP machine (if I can find one), and run regedit or
regedt32 on that other machine?


The file is probably too big to do this, on my machine it is [6,400 kb].
But in theory you could.

--
William
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WTC
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C30C4.DB4F324E@cox.net...
Quote:


ohaya wrote:


Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a
stupid
question)

William,

It's been awhile, but "yes", I have.

The download is still going... it's about 1/2 way through, as it's
kind
of slow (~100 KB/sec)...

I'll post back after the download is complete and I've had a chance
to
burn and tried to boot the CD.


BTW, I don't think you answered my question about the "File" menu item
not appearing in Regedit. Was that (the missing "File" menu item)
because the Win2K regedit doesn't have it?

Or did you mean to use regedt32?



Windows 2000 doesn't have the File menu option that includes Load Hive.

--
William
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
ohaya wrote:
Quote:


Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a stupid
question)

William,

It's been awhile, but "yes", I have.

The download is still going... it's about 1/2 way through, as it's kind
of slow (~100 KB/sec)...

I'll post back after the download is complete and I've had a chance to
burn and tried to boot the CD.

Thanks again,
Jim


Hi,

BTW, I don't think you answered my question about the "File" menu item
not appearing in Regedit. Was that (the missing "File" menu item)
because the Win2K regedit doesn't have it?

Or did you mean to use regedt32?

Jim
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
ohaya wrote:
Quote:


Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a stupid
question)

William,

It's been awhile, but "yes", I have.

The download is still going... it's about 1/2 way through, as it's kind
of slow (~100 KB/sec)...

I'll post back after the download is complete and I've had a chance to
burn and tried to boot the CD.

Thanks again,
Jim


Hi,

I forgot to mention in my earlier posts that her C: drive is FAT32, not
NTFS. Since that's the case, couldn't I just boot a Win98 floppy, and
copy the registry hive files off of the hard drive, take the floppy over
to a different XP machine (if I can find one), and run regedit or
regedt32 on that other machine?

Jim
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying Reply with quote
Quote:

Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a stupid
question)


William,

It's been awhile, but "yes", I have.

The download is still going... it's about 1/2 way through, as it's kind
of slow (~100 KB/sec)...

I'll post back after the download is complete and I've had a chance to
burn and tried to boot the CD.

Thanks again,
Jim
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ohaya
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying u Reply with quote
Quote:

With the win 2000 machine, I don't think you can use that method, will a
friend let you do this who is running an XP system? Does she have
another Hard Drive in her system or possibly a unused one that you can
install XP temporarily onto?

Or you could try using BartPE Live Bootable CD on her machine. This
should let you do the method I described.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/


Hi,

I was thinking of trying to build a BartPE CD, but couldn't figure out
what to do about the slipstream requirement. Then, I realized that I
have an MSDN subscription, so now I'm in the process of downloading the
"Win XP Home with SP2" ISO image.

Am I correct that I can use this with the buildpe to build a BartPE CD?

Jim
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WTC
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying u Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C2B27.9ED86ABF@cox.net...
Quote:


With the win 2000 machine, I don't think you can use that method,
will a
friend let you do this who is running an XP system? Does she have
another Hard Drive in her system or possibly a unused one that you
can
install XP temporarily onto?

Or you could try using BartPE Live Bootable CD on her machine. This
should let you do the method I described.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/


I was thinking of trying to build a BartPE CD, but couldn't figure out
what to do about the slipstream requirement. Then, I realized that I
have an MSDN subscription, so now I'm in the process of downloading
the
"Win XP Home with SP2" ISO image.

Am I correct that I can use this with the buildpe to build a BartPE
CD?



Yes it will. Have you burned an ISO image before? (might be a stupid
question)

--
William
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WTC
Guest
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: HELP! Windows XP Home logs off immediately - copying us Reply with quote
"ohaya" <ohaya@cox.net> wrote in message
news:428C1E8E.9E603835@cox.net...
Quote:

Can you remove the hard drive from her machine, and place it in your
machine as a slave?

If so, then open the registry, highlight [HKLM] then click on "File"
then "Load Hive". Navigate to "windows\system32\config" on *her hard
drive* and select the file "system" (has no file extension). Enter a
name for the hive. Then navigate to:

[HKLM\<the name you entered>\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and then delete all the values that look like:

\DosDevices\C

Once you have done this, Highlight [HKLM\<the name you entered>],
then
click "File > Unload Hive". Then remove the Hard and replace back
into
her machine.



I have other Win2K machines, but no other XP machine. Can I do what
you
suggest if I move her hard drive to one of the Win2K machines?

Also, I just started regedit, and I don't see a "File" menu item. Did
you mean to use regedt32 instead or regedit?


With the win 2000 machine, I don't think you can use that method, will a
friend let you do this who is running an XP system? Does she have
another Hard Drive in her system or possibly a unused one that you can
install XP temporarily onto?

Or you could try using BartPE Live Bootable CD on her machine. This
should let you do the method I described.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

--
William
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