[dba-Tech] RE: [AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!

Andy,
on my win2k the userinit.exe is in two places:
c:\WINNT\system32
and
c:\WINNT\system32\dllcache
you may try to create these directories and copy it there
Lembit
Lembit Soobik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>; <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] RE: [AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!


> Cross-posted to AccessD and dba-tech
>
> Hi Bert-Jan
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Yes I tried to login as administrator, but the same occurs. And I now
> know it's not a password issue. The symptoms are exactly as described in
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249321
> "After you try to log on to your Windows 2000-based computer by using a
> valid user name and password, the Loading your personal settings dialog
> box is displayed, followed by the Saving your settings dialog box.
> However, the desktop does not appear, and the Welcome to Windows logon
> screen is displayed again"
>
> Essentially it seems to be that the file userinit.exe is in one place
> but the registry is pointing to it in a different place. I can now
> access the C: drive (it is fat32) via a newer DOS disk, and the
> userinit.exe file is in c:\windows\system32. That leaves me with the
> question of how to interrorgate a W2K registry when I can't get W2k
> started. And I have no other W2K machines and I'm not on a network. Any
> of you kind and wonderful people any idea on that one?
>
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> > Bert-Jan Brinkhuis
> > Sent: 08 July 2003 10:11
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Andy,
> >
> > just some suggestions:
> >
> > - did you try loggin in as administrator?
> >
> > Are you using any security policies? Is C formatted as NTFS?
> > (i think so when your dos boot disk doesn't see C:) We had
> > soemthing of the same and the users couldn't log in because
> > they were not granted access to 'personal settings' and thus
> > could not log in..... And administrator could
> >
> > - Is any of the data in the windows system folders? (Windows,
> > Winnt, my documents. My ...)?
> >
> > Because if it isn't you might consider the reinstall.... i
> > had a problem reinstalling once, couldn't even startup the PC
> > anymore. Someone asked me the same and said if i reinstalled
> > there might be the possiblilty windows will instal over the
> > same folders as it did before and the data might be accessed
> > after reinstalling. Since that was my only option (recovering
> > the data was far too expensive for a home pc) i tried it and
> > all my data was accessable...! No guarantee this will work
> > for you aswell... ;-)
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Bert-Jan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
> > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:03 PM
> > Subject: [AccessD] OT W2K Help!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > > Would have posted to the new tech list but not sure how many are on
> > > that yet and this is a bit desperate.
> > >
> > > Have just finished upgrading my son's PC from W98SE to W2K
> > so that he
> > > can attach the iPod I just bought him. Fairly easy until it
> > booted in
> > > W2K for the first time. It asked me for a single password
> > to use for
> > > the existing account and for the new administrator account it has
> > > created. I used my son's name and it took it fine, except
> > that now I
> > > can't log on at all. It kinda knows 'tom' (for so it is) is correct
> > > because when I enter that it takes it but just comes
> > straight back to
> > > ask for it again, whereas anything else I type gets rejected as
> > > invalid. But a lot of b****y good that is when I can't get
> > in. Reboot
> > > after reboot, still no joy. Caps on, caps off. What on
> > earth can I do?
> > > I've scanned the web but software to crack W2K passwords
> > has a price
> > > around $2-300!!!! Help!!!!
> > >
> > > Andy Lacey
> > > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> > >
> > >
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