Rick,

I think you are dead-on-right. The password seems to be accepted, then
the custom background is shown (mine is airplanes, my wife's is a pic
of the kids), then we're summarily logged off.

Note that I grabbed userinit.exe off the kid's PC (also XP Home SP2)
and copied it to wsaupdater.exe on my wife's as you suggested. I noted
that it's exactly the same size. In the end it didn't help.

Ideas?

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 14:56:38 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@mvps.org> wrote:

>He doesn't need to clear the password, as I've already pointed out this is
>not the issue. The login/logout behavior is caused by a damaged userinit
>value, not a bad password. If the password were the problem, the system
>would not begin to login at all.
>
>--
>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
>
>"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:9D6CD529-B7C5-4D61-A7F6-07AFA9AA84DE@microsoft.com...
>> Since you started a new thread, you probably didn't see or read my reply!!
>> How about logging into safe mode option menu and
>> 1) Last Known Good Configuration OR
>> 2) Regular Safe mode and running system restore?
>> 3) If not regular safe mode, then safe mode w/command prompt only?
>>
>> See if "Administrator" account works?
>> The "Administrator" account password is usually blank (ie no password)!
>>
>> Once in Safe mode you can repair the other her user login!!
>>
>> Well, I'm surprised. You are following both threads!!
>> So why start a new, though?
>>
>> "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.
>>>
>>>
>
>