The Word of mAn[S]o0r

Im starting this new series on my blog which will concentrate on the myriad of problems (and their solutions) that we have with the wonderful windows XP! This is the first installment...


My brothers PC had a problem of logging off immediately after you put in the password and login. I tried using other accounts on the system, thinking maybe it was a problem with his profile, but that didnt work either. However, i could still access the machine using a network connection from my computer. Access meaning i could view his hard drive and remotely manage his PC using the Comptuer Management MMC panel in the Control Panel. So i did a websearch and this is the solution i found to it posted by Jeff.

I have found that viruses sometimes modify the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

"Userinit" = "C:\WINNT\system32\userinit.exe,"

and change it to

"Userinit" = "C:\WINNT\system32\<some other virus exe>.exe,"

This will cause the issue that you are having.  To fix it, simply
change it back.  Of course you will not be able to do this by logging
on.  You can use another machine (computer A) on the same network (or
borrow a friends computer to network with A) and use regedit.exe to
remote connect to the machine with the problem (computer B) and make
the change that way.  Just make sure that the Remote Registry service
on machine A is running.  That same service may have to be running on
computer B (can't remember) but you can start it using Computer
Management and remoting from A to B as well.  Anyway, that is a bit of
a different subject and there are many messages regarding that.

I feel sorry for those that have re-built machines because of this
simple issue .

Hope this helps,

Jeff

Thankfully, now i wont have to re-install his windows installation.

And so said mAn[S]o0r on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 12:43 PM | Permalink | |