Rick,

I copied userinit.exe over to wsaupdater.exe and rebooted....but still
had the same login-autologout problem. Any other ideas?

Mark

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:40:59 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@mvps.org> wrote:

>Right, this is typical of the Blazefind issue mentioned in the article I
>linked to. Your passwords and accounts *are* being recognized and accepted,
>it's the userinit value that is screwed up.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Mark" <markxyz59@cox.net> wrote in message
>news:43b7ff03.11515359@news.east.cox.net...
>> It's XP Home, and I guess I wasn't clear enough.
>>
>> My wife was doing windows updates, then the machine asked to reboot.
>> She clicked "ok", and when it rebooted it brought up the usename and
>> password window. When she typed in her account and password, it would
>> log in, and then immediately save settings and logout, ending up back
>> at the login window. All accounts on this machine do this. You type
>> your password, up comes your personal backround for a sec, then it
>> saves setting and logs you out.
>>
>> We got an XP Home Upgrade CD (I have no idea which computer it belongs
>> to as we have five in the house). I was able to get the System Restore
>> Console up from "boot from CD", and then login with "no password". Now
>> we can "see" our files on C and D, but we cannot copy or access them.
>>
>> What should we do now? Are we completely screwed because windows
>> update screwed up our password file? Or, is there something else we
>> should try from the System Restore Console?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:09:53 GMT, markxyz59@cox.net (Mark) wrote:
>>
>>>I posted earlier about Windows Updates screwing up and not accepting
>>>any passwords (it would login and then quickly log out). Good News: I
>>>was able to get the Recovery Console to give us access to the disk. We
>>>can see C and D drives and all files are there.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to clobber/reset passwords from the command prompt?
>>>
>>>Our first instinct was to stick a USB Drive in and copy stuff, but the
>>>USB drivers don't appear to be there on the recovery console.
>>>
>>
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