BleepingComputer.com: Log in and immediately disconneted from his session

Hi,

This is the problem that my friend has at this moment.

When entering on his user session, Win XP Pro load all users settings and suddenly and immediately (after 1-2 seconds), it log off from his session, so that, he could'nt open his session.

PS: His password is the good one and works well.
On Safe Mode, he has the same trouble.
He has only one user account on his computer.

Thanks in advance !

I forgot to mention that his XP Pro version is coming with SP2.

Need your advise ! Don't forget me, thanks.

Anybody can help me ?

We will have to create a small 'fix CD' to solve this problem.
Please download RC.ISO and save it somewhere you can find it.
Also download MagicISO and install it.

Start MagicISO. You should see a window informing you about the full version of MagicISO.
In the bottom right select Try It! and the program will open.
Click on File and then on Open and navigate to the RC.ISO file you downloaded. Select it, and click Open.

First, we'll need to add a clean version of userinit.exe to the current RC.ISO

• In the upper right pane, double click on the i386 folder.
  
• Right click in the upper right pane and select Add Files...
  
• Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select userinit.exe
  
• Then click Open to add userinit.exe to the CD image.
  
• Click File and select Save As...
  
• Name the file RCplus and save it somewhere you can find it.

Next, we'll need to burn the newly created image to a disk that we can use to fix the problem.

• Put a blank CD-R disk in your CD burner and close the tray. If an AutoPlay window opens, close it.
  
• Click on Tools and select Burn CD/DVD with ISO.... A window will appear.
  
• Click on the little folder to the right of CD/DVD Image File then navigate to the newly created RCplus.iso Image file and click Open.
  
• In the CD/DVD Writing Speed drop-down menu choose the 8X setting.
  
• Under Format make sure that Mode 1 is selected.
  
• And finally, click on the Burn it! button to burn RCplus.iso to disk.

Once the disk is burned, put it in the machine you want to fix and restart it.
Boot to the CD just as you would with a Windows XP disk.
At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to enter the Recovery Console.
Choose the installation to be repaired by number (usually 1) and press Enter.
When you are asked for the Administrator password, enter the password or leave it blank (default) and press Enter.

At the C:\Windows> prompt, type the following commands pressing Enter after each one. Note: Watch the spaces.

After putting in the third command, you should receive the message 1 file copied which will indicate that the operation succeeded.
Now take out the CD and reboot your computer to normal mode. Try to log in and it should let you back in.

Thanks Budapest for your reply,

If I understand I need one CD with RC.iso and RC plus.iso together, isn't it ?

"First, we'll need to add a clean version of userinit.exe"

Where can I get a clean version of userinit.exe ? My friend doesn't have XP Busines CD ?

Can I get userinit.exe version from XP Home ?

"Click File and select Save As...
Name the file RCplus and save it somewhere you can find it."

Rename in RCplus, is not convert to an iso image. How can I convert to an iso file ?

You only need one CD. The CD is created when you do these steps:

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You should be able to use the userinit.exe file from XP Home

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I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain in a little more detail.

Thanks Budapest,


I've deepburner software to burn Cd. I had already a RC.iso burned Cd .

I've just re-read your reply again. If I understand, I've to add (from my burn software) userinit.exe to RC.iso, and rename all as RCplus.iso for burning, isn't it ?

Budapest, on Jul 14 2009, 05:20 PM, said:

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Yes. If you follow the instructions in my original post this is what you will achieve.

I followed yours instructions with Magic burner.

I added userinit.exe to RC.iso (into'system32' folder) and I saved it to RCplus.iso

I burned with Magic with your requested settings.

I put the boot cd, RCplus.iso into the machine, but it doesn't recognize as a boot CD.

Did I have to add userinit.exe to i386 folder instead of system32 folder from RC.iso ?

This post has been edited by ramaflore: 15 July 2009 - 05:39 PM

You take the userinit.exe file from the C:\Windows\System32 directory and add it to the i386 directory in rc.iso.

Budapest, on Jul 15 2009, 05:54 PM, said:

Ok, I'll do it, thanks !