hehe...does "best of luck" mean...."dude you're screwed?"

Is there such a thing as a dos-level regedit for XP? I know they
exist for Win-95, but can't find one for XP.

Also, next time you talk to some folks at Microsoft, please let them
know that their Windows Update (and System Recovery) software sucks. I
think it's ridiculous that there isn't any low level software that
says go back to "User-Specified-Date" registry hive.

When it works, Windows is good...better than Linux, IMO. But, when
it's broken, XP is crappy software, and we're stuck with it because we
let microsoft be a monopoly. Imagine if our local telephones were like
this

M.

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:22:38 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@mvps.org> wrote:

>Hi Mark,
>
>Yes, as it's not the file itself, it's the registry entry for userinit -
>probably missing the trailing comma (very common).
>
>--
>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:43b86e4e.40006453@news.east.cox.net...
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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