I have a problem. I have had Spybot popping up that there is a problem with userinit.exe for a few days. I have just kept canceling because it is valid. I was going to deal with the error later. The other option was to delete that and all associated files. This morning my wife turned the laptop on. Before having a chance to cancel out, my toddler hit ENTER at the moment Spybot came up. Since reboot, the machine logs in and then back out. This is the ADMIN account. I have tried to boot into all SAFE MODES but none do. Just logs right out. I tried Recovery Console from CD and did expand D:\i386\userinit.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe but I get the error: Unable to create file userinit.exe 0 file(s) expanded. The laptop will not let me eject the CD when in Recovery Mode, so I can not put in a CD with a copy of userinit.exe to copy over. I do not want to force the CD drive unless I really need to with a pin. No floppy drive. I tried a repair but using a different CD so I had to enter in that CDs code, but still no help. Later, I found a "reinstall XP" CD that came with my laptop, which originally I thought was a "restore" CD and that is why I avoid that CD at first. I can hook it up to my network, but what good is it if I can not get Windows started to get a new copy of userinit.exe in system32? Please, does anyone have any suggestions other than a format? As God blesses America, resistance will be, and always has been, futile.

Try system restore from the rcovery console. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449

...my toddler hit ENTER at the moment... Incredible isn't it! i_XpUser

per, I tried it and read that article. It only works for SAFE MODE PROMPT. I can not enter SAFE MODE. As God blesses America, resistance will be, and always has been, futile.

You said you could get into the recovery console from the cd boot.

No. None of the SAFE MODES will work. I can boot into Recovery Console with the CD, but the expand command not work. As God blesses America, resistance will be, and always has been, futile.

When I did the repair from the CD, it apparently copied a new userinit.exe but in the dllcache of system32. I copied that file over and my laptop booted normally. Had dozens of updates to redo because of the repair, but all seems fine again. This time, I told Spybot to accept the file and never ask again. Thanks for all suggestions. As God blesses America, resistance will be, and always has been, futile.