My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon feature for
his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse cursor, and that's it.
The hard drive light looks like it's working, but even after several hours,
nothing happens. Booting into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but
neither the mouse or keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.

Any suggestions?

In news:4DF0B56E-6F73-483F-9861-E6D26FF96DE0@microsoft.com,
Hobbes159 <Hobbes159@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon
> feature for his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will
> not boot. When it starts up, you get the usual windows loading
> animations, then a blank blue screen (the default desktop background)
> with a mouse cursor, and that's it. The hard drive light looks like
> it's working, but even after several hours, nothing happens. Booting
> into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but neither the mouse or
> keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.
>
> Any suggestions?

Well, if it's not getting in then I'd suggest a repair installation and
while I don't recommend a business computer being allowed to login
automatically there's a better way to do it than to have TweakUI set it up
for you.

Repair Installation of XP :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html

Automatic Login :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/auto_login.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

Sherlock Holmes

Try selecting last know good configuration in the alternative startup menu
that you see when you access Safe Mode which may help if some other registry
settings were modified by him or corrupted. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default...307852&sd=tech

"Hobbes159" <Hobbes159@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4DF0B56E-6F73-483F-9861-E6D26FF96DE0@microsoft.com...
> My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon feature
> for
> his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
> starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
> screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse cursor, and that's
> it.
> The hard drive light looks like it's working, but even after several
> hours,
> nothing happens. Booting into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but
> neither the mouse or keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.
>
> Any suggestions?