Problems with Windows XP

[Invader Bugs]

can someone please help. whenever i try to log into my user name on windows xp (home edition), it will say "Loading personal settings", the wallpaper of the user name will breifly flash onto the screen, then it will go back to the log in page, and then say "Logging off" "saving your settings" then i would have to try again. it will never let me on, the only way im posting this is because im at a friends house now. so can someone PLEASE help me. is there a way to at least get on to burn a cd of data i want to save the stuff i want, then i could reformat? thanks a lot.

[bazooka]

It sounds like you need to reinstall.

I was fixing this one person's computer that did that and I had to reinstall.

If the activation is farked up, it will do that.

[unclebud]

Can you get into Windows in Safe Mode or as Administrator in normal mode?

[Invader Bugs]

how do i get into safe mode or administrator in normal mode? please tell me.

[808smokey]

how do i get into safe mode or administrator in normal mode? please tell me.

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To get to safe mode boot the computer and keep pressing F5 as soon as you press the power on button.

[Invader Bugs]

alright, safe mode didnt work, but either way, i reformatted my C drive, and it works fine now. im even posting from my computer

[IAIHMB]

how do i get into safe mode or administrator in normal mode? please tell me.

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To get to safe mode boot the computer and keep pressing F5 as soon as you press the power on button.

For me it is F8...

[Invader Bugs]

well, i tried F5, and got a whole list of things to chose from, but the ones i tried didnt work, and some of them seemed kinda weird, so i didnt try those

[vitualis]

can someone please help. whenever i try to log into my user name on windows xp (home edition), it will say "Loading personal settings", the wallpaper of the user name will breifly flash onto the screen, then it will go back to the log in page, and then say "Logging off" "saving your settings" then i would have to try again. it will never let me on, the only way im posting this is because im at a friends house now. so can someone PLEASE help me. is there a way to at least get on to burn a cd of data i want to save the stuff i want, then i could reformat? thanks a lot.

This sounds like you used one of the common cracks to bypass the Windows Authentication process and it either didn't work (after 30 days) or it got re-instated after an update. That crack deleted the popups and messages surrounding the fact you had to now authenticate your version of Windows but the lock-out still works --> thus, no messages but automatically "logging you out".

If this above scenario describes your situation, then you've been a bad boy...

Regards.

[Faustus]

can someone please help. whenever i try to log into my user name on windows xp (home edition), it will say "Loading personal settings", the wallpaper of the user name will breifly flash onto the screen, then it will go back to the log in page, and then say "Logging off" "saving your settings" then i would have to try again. it will never let me on, the only way im posting this is because im at a friends house now. so can someone PLEASE help me. is there a way to at least get on to burn a cd of data i want to save the stuff i want, then i could reformat? thanks a lot.

This sounds like you used one of the common cracks to bypass the Windows Authentication process and it either didn't work (after 30 days) or it got re-instated after an update. That crack deleted the popups and messages surrounding the fact you had to now authenticate your version of Windows but the lock-out still works --> thus, no messages but automatically "logging you out".

If this above scenario describes your situation, then you've been a bad boy...

Regards.

Na, I've seen this happen on legit machines before. I dont know a way to fix it short of reinstalling but it is not an original problem.

[Invader Bugs]

no i use the windows xp home edition that came already installed on my pc. plus, i would never download windows, windows is probably one of the most downloaded things, and since its a program, someone could easily replace it with a virus. so dont worry about pirated windows over here :P

[xxgriff]

boot from you Windows XP CD, and let windows detect partitions/OS installed. you shoule be given th eoption of new/clean install, and a repair the current installation. choose to repair. your apps a,d data will remain, only the OS will be reinstalled, that is key files for opertation, and details of your hardware will be re-written to your registry, and the wpa schtuff.

[thecoalman]

Invvader FYI if you lost your personal you can recover it. Try a search for data recovery.

[Garibaldi]

For future reference:
If anything like that happens again where you can't log onto windows, I would highly recommend that you download and burn a copy of slax linux, see www.slax.org . Even if you don't know anything about linux this works great as a backup os. All you do is put the cd in at startup and it will boot from the disk. You won't even have to go into windows. It auto detects your hardware and tcp\ip settings so you can log onto the internet. The iso image file for slax is only 150 mb. If you want a version that has many more apps, you can try knoppix, at www.knoppix.net -which is also a live-cd at about 700 MB.