Windows LOG OFF instead of LOG ON

[0987123]

Anyone seen this one?
Machine starts up normally, goes to the XP Home welcome screen.  I click on one of the two profiles and it starts logging into the profile, as soon as the wallpaper comes up, it immediately logs back out to the welcome screen.  It also does this in safe mode and also safe mode with command prompt.
Any clues??

 

[Dollar]

I'd first try the Recovery Console

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prmb_tol_kfma.asp

As I'm not sure what your XP Home setup is, all I could really come up with is:
> I know this can be done on a Server 2003 machine (because it has happened
> to me) but unsure on a XP machine. The problem may be an incorrect system
> drive letter rather than userinit.exe. Open the registry via a networked
> machine, navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and delete all values that
> look like this: \DosDevices\C

If you have some form of network, this will be possible though you would need to know a bit about networking and remote registry, otherwise...sorry.

 

[bcastner]

http://www.winxptutor.com/wsaremove.htm

http://www.paulscomputerservice.net/index.php?body=./os/autoLogoff.php

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=43115&st=40