Whenever I boot into Windows Xp, my account is automatically logged out. The only way to get in is by loading Safe Mode. If I choose Safe Mode with Networking it also just logs me out instantly as soon as I click my account icon. :(

First, are you the system admin? If so, then somehow perhaps it became corrupted (unlikely but possible) and I think you could go to Administrative Tools through Control Panel or the Start Menu and go to Computer Management and then to Local Users and check out Users and then the Admin account. If you not the Admin, then maybe someone has messed with it. Hopes this helps. By the way, an excellent book for Windows XP is called Windows XP Inside Out. Bowen

have the same problem and i havent have accesed on my xp os, thankfully im dual booting w/ 98se

bowen: your solution havent answered the problem. do u have any other possible solutions

I had this behavior in XP after i changed the boot.ini file in my dual boot setup. It started up but on another disk that it was initially installed on. It logged out once with the message "cant check activation" but that was only once, the seconf time it just started and logged out again. Greetz, Robert

I have also found this behaviour with XP Home Edition. If I try to login with ANY account I get logged out immediately! The only way to login is to go into "Safe Mode". Does anyone have a solution for this? I have checked for corrupt profiles and the registry is good. Any help much appreciated! Cheers, Clinton

you obviously need to crack the activation crack, go to http://crck.passwd.ws/w.htm and then download Windows XP 2600 Crack by PMAF and Windows XP Professional Home, .NET WPA Patcher Multilingual Follow the instructions included. You need to run these all in safe mode, or better is dual booting use another version of windows and then run them. Once you have successfully cracked all files (make sure winlogon is cracked) then reboot into win xp and you should be able to log on