Windows XP immediately begins to shut down while logging in 1

[sulumnad]

My friend has a new Toshiba laptop, once you hit enter on the login it begins to load the preferences then it says saving data & shutting down workstation. There is no way to stop it. I'll be looking at it tonight Not sure what on earth could be the problem. This is happening on a friends Toshiba laptop, can't run anything at all. Safe mode isn't stopping it from shutting down. Any idea why its shutting down before its even finished coming up? Is there anything I can do with a bootup disk or ERD Commander?
-Marc

 

[billcmh]

Could this be a power management shut down?

 

[Freestone]

Perhaps related to thread779-924598 ?

And from Bill's first post in this thread:

"You can stop the shutdown by immediately doing:
Start, Run, shutdown -a"

That is, if you can get enough time to do this...

 

[bcastner]

Sounds more like the relatively new BlaseFind / Search Assistant Toolbar /AdaWare issue. The XP Forum has seen several instances in the last week:
thread779-924408

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[sulumnad]

Thanks alot that sounds like it, I will post when I am done, didn't get a chance to work on it last night. I'll let you guys know how I end up fixing it. You guys rock!
-Marc State IT
"Oooooh this not be cheap!

 

[bithead9]

I ran in to the same problem on a Desktop unit. I reinstalled WinXP overtop the existing XP install. It preserved just about everything and I could then install AdAware/Spybot to get rid of all the garbage from that clietns system.

 

[westredd]

Sounds like a virus is running at start up.

Does it do the same if you log on as another user?

 

[sulumnad]

Thanks bithead9,
Thats what I was going to try to do, but this person couldn't find their XP disk. I downloaded and setup the 6 home setup disks, but this laptop doesnt have an A: drive. Sigh. I printed out directions for removing the BlazeFind tool bar and for recovering/installing XP again when she finds the disk. Anyway thanks everyone for your posts.
-Marc