XP attempts login then logs out

[sanne]

Hi Furboi.

I can't thank you enough for posting the solution to the problem. I had the problem for about 8 days, but wouldn't give up so easily, by formating the partition and install XP again ( I've got multiboot with win98 so I just used that one ) and luckly I didn't. I just did what you wrote "copy userinit.exe to wsaupdater.exe" from win98, rebooted into XP and jubii it worked.

Thanx so very much

[sanne]

Hi AngelDaae.

Have you tried to boot into Safe Mode ? If you don't know how, you do like this ........
When you turn on your computer and it's finish loading the BIOS settings
( the hardware ) and just before it's beginning to load the windows settings,
I think a message appear saying " starting windows " ( I've gor a permanent boot menu so this message don't appear ) you press F8 and a menu with a lot af options appear, use the down arrow to the menu " Safe Mode ", it takes a while but once in windows try to go to " ad - remove software " and see if this " Windows Search Assist " is still on the list and uninstall it again.
If this isn't the case you can boot from your XP CD ( do you use XP ) and do a Repair, which dosn't erase your windows settings, but just repair the windows files.
On MS Website you can find a describtion on how to do it. You can find the site 2 ways.
1)
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[LN];kbjump
and type 315341 in the search field
2)
the direct link .....
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341&Product=winxp

( you have to put " http:// " infront of both Url 1 + 2. I can't write the whole url so it's posted right )

In the article you have to look a bit down the page under " METHOD 2 "

Hope this will help - if you have any problems just write

Good Luck
Sanne

[blacksunshine]

I was wondering if it was possible to fix it without using the XP cd. Cuz unfortunetly i down own a copy and know no one with a copy. So pls lemme know if this is possible...Thanks

[Bowman]

I've got a version of xp (maybe oem) with no possibility of repair.
So I try the method found on next webpage:

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/0..._boot_toot.htm

It's long but shorter than a full reinstall and IT WORKS !!!!

Thx Charlie White and the people of this forum

Hi folks, sorry I am new around here and found this forum out of desperation - and BOY, AM I GLAD I DID.

Firstly, many thanks to Bijorne for posting Charlie Whites article and big thanks to CW for the article itself.

I had tried all of the 'userinit' solutions posted elsewhere here and they didnt work.........CW's article, whilst very long did work and has enabled me to recover a lot of important work.

In short, if nothing else works, and you have had 'System restore' switched on give it a shot!

Thanks to all in this forum for their time in posting

[rik]

Glad you could find help here, and Welcome to Techzonez.

[BlueMagic]

Awsome fix!!!!!!! Oh my God, I was working on a customers computer when this happend and i was gonna die! Thank you for posting this fix you saved my life!!!!!!!!!!

[lynchknot]

Everytime I reboot I get a message that Ramdiskxp wants to install - so it tries to but then errors (I had to delete from Program files because it would not uninstall) and I have no connection. DHCP is stuck on "starting" and upsserv.exe is running very high CPU I rebooted again recently and some services and apps failed to start or were using very low memory so could not display. I system restore to the day before and upon logging in it would immediately say it's logging out. I am using mini-PE to post this. Has anyone found a particular windows file that is at fault? ***edit - i'll try the above methods.


**edit -
I ran scannow and reinstalled sp2 - overkill but it solved Ramdiskxp from trying to install.

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