I've had Windows freeze up on me, so I rebooted, noticed I had some odd problems such as programs not starting properly and figured I should just restart it properly. After having done that, Windows suddenly starts at the welcome window, with the log in where you can choose your account, something I had never set up before. So either way I click on my account and for a split second the desktop background flashes and then it goes back to the welcome screen, instantly signing me out again. This happens every time I press it, I'm stuck at the sign in screen. I already tried booting from my Windows XP disk and ran a repair of my installation, but nothing changed. Is there any way to fix this or at the very least make it possible to save my files on there?

Check the following for a possible fix: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/... Microsoft page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893

I tried that but unfortunately it had no effect.