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1 I run out of cap & was unable to download bartpe & we didn’t have time to do the whole process either so I used hierens instead & booted into mini xp, you just download & burn to cd one can also use it for removing passwords etc.

2 I checked for the userinit.exe file & it was missing, so I just copied it from another pc with xp (c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe) though if another xp pc is not available then this is easy to find on the web.

Hope this is of help to someone.

Linux > PC > Mac

Linux/Unix/etc. a lot of those open source OSs are for “power users”. In a perfect world everything is “open source”.

Not trying to heat up arguments Re: That is not why this help form was created..

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I copied the file from my desktop computer onto a usb stick, then using the windows cd in recovery mode I simply copied the userinit.exe into system32 from the usb stick.

This stopped the login loop and just reports a log on error, but giving me full access to a normal windows start up.

I just have to stop the error window by following advice given above by using regedit to completey remove the problem if this is part of the same problem.

Having the logon errorr is not a problem for running windows especially as Norton does not report any problems and one click and the message is gone. I presume this is a cause of the logon loop being interupted.

ok what i did is that i restarted the computer and started windows normally. as it came to the welcome screen i punched in my password for the admin account as it was login in i pressed ctrl+shift+esc this opend my task manager i then clicked on file new task and typed regedit….i was loged off again…i again restarted my computer and again came to the welcome screen i typed my password for the admin account and it logged me in i again opend my task manager new task and the word regedit was already typed for me…i opend registry and went to HKLM/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT……Iwas logged off again….i had to reapeat the same procedure and this time when i opened regedit from my task manager i had the HKLM/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT opend i clicked on Windows NT/Current Version/ i was logged off again….restarted my comp again dis time i managed to reach the Current Version before being logged off i opend the userinit entry and typed C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe,…..given that i am not a fast typer i was logged off again so had to restart and went back to the userinit edit entry where as much as i typed was still there i then completed the whole path and pressed ok restarted the pc and bingo it was working again……….
i actually managed to do all this without xp cd which was great the key is you have to restart as this gives you time when you login to your admin account…further you need to be very quick in opening task manager and then regedit then the reqired folder but do not worry if your loged off just restart and start again you will notice that the computer saves your opend folder so you don’t have to start everything from scratch..i hope this makes sense if not you can e-mail me for help

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Also, I have seen some viruses change the permissions for the registry and those have to be changed (even in Bart) to allow the reg file to be imported or edited.

It is a good habit to check the values of these settings and files after cleaning a PC but before restarting. A good utility to do that is the free Autoruns program from Microsoft’s Systernals Utilities.