Hi, I'm having big trouble with my XP Home Edition. There's only one user registered on the system. Earlier when the system boot up the desktop with all the icons show up. A couple of days ago the welcome-screen shows up with the only user ready to be clicked on. When I chose the user the logon occur, but immediatly the user gets logged off!!! Ok, I boot up in safe-mode, logs on as Administrator or the other user account without any problems (!) Via "msconfig.exe" I then disable Services and startup-programs, restarts the machine and nothing seems to help! Facts: * The machine won't boot up in normal mode * The machine will boot up in safe mode * The Welcome-screen now appear instead of logging on directly as the only registered user * There's no password either on the user or the Administrator account * In normal mode the machine immediatly logs off when trying to log on * Going back 14 days via the System Configuration tool didn't help ANY help will be appriciated, Kind regards Morten Schaumann

Boot up in Safe Mode. Log in as Administrator. Rename the other user account's profile folder (C:\Documents and Settings\AccountName)- just put OLD in front of the name. Restart the system and boot up normally. Log in with the other user acoc--t. After it builds a new profile, copy over the Desktop, Favorites, and My Documents from the renamed old folder. If that doesn't work, try starting a new post after looking through the Event Viewer log files from within Safe Mode.....

I had the exact same problem... but I was playing with the local security policy settings prior to this happening. I had to start up in safe mode (F8 on boot), log on as the administrator, go to the control panel then administrative tools. Open the Local Security Settings, then Software Restriction Policies then Additional rules. in there make sure all the reg settings are set to Unrestricted. As well under Software Restriction Policies -> Security Levels.... Make "Unrestriced" as your default rule.... I had changed both of those policies at the same time... changed them both back to the default (setting I have mentioned).. Good luck