Quote Originally Posted by evil dikk
but at the moment i have 4029,it sucks , i know, anyway i haven't used it since i installed it so how could it have self destructed? i run xp on 1 drive and me on another and did a clean install of longhorn on a 3rd drive using the xp installer, what i cant figure out is why wont it let me login yet it will in safe mode
The installation has a timebomb. So lets say you installed it 6 months ago, 180 days. Haven't used it at all in those 180 days.. Tick tick. You login today. Boom.. timebomb goes off, you cannot get into your login. The timebomb was built into the code. Usually it goes off at 180 days, but I have seen them go off at 14 days, 30, and even 60.

The timebomb is a way to stop people from using Longhorn for long durations. After all these are not beta releases, they are alpha or even pre-alpha. They were never meant to go public and certainly are not meant to be used as a primary OS. Just something to tinker around on.

As for getting into safemode, it bypasses the normal login routines thus allowing you a safe way to get into your OS and get files/fix/repair your OS. In this case, I think the only way to fix it is to try to reinstall or to upgrade. Once the timebomb goes off, I don't know of a way or recovering from it. That is not to say it isn't possible however.