Can't get past welcome screen

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I recently used a startup manager utility to reduce the amount of programmes
that launched automatically on startup. I am now unable to get XP to start
past the welcome screen. If I click on a user it loads settings and then logs
off immediately. I can't get into safe mode as it does the same thing. I've
tried copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe as suggested in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893 but this does not help. Any other
ideas?
 
I recently used a startup manager utility to reduce the amount of programmes
that launched automatically on startup. I am now unable to get XP to start
past the welcome screen. If I click on a user it loads settings and then logs
off immediately. I can't get into safe mode as it does the same thing. I've
tried copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe as suggested in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893 but this does not help. Any other
ideas?
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What "startup manager" ?
 
I recently used a startup manager utility to reduce the amount of programmes
that launched automatically on startup. I am now unable to get XP to start
past the welcome screen. If I click on a user it loads settings and then logs
off immediately. I can't get into safe mode as it does the same thing. I've
tried copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe as suggested in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893 but this does not help. Any other
ideas?
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What "startup manager" did you use? And exactly what did you do with
it?

Also note that reducing the number of programs that launch
automatically is a poor objective. Despite what many people tell you,
you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs you
run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can try
google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
 
Sam said:
I recently used a startup manager utility to reduce the amount of
programmes that launched automatically on startup. I am now unable to
get XP to start past the welcome screen. If I click on a user it
loads settings and then logs off immediately. I can't get into safe
mode as it does the same thing. I've tried copy userinit.exe
wsaupdater.exe as suggested in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893
but this does not help. Any other ideas?
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Go to the Startup Manager's website and perhaps there is a forum or FAQ that
may help.
Try a Registry restore or go to a Restore Point.
If you have the XP cd, there are other options.
Buffalo
 
I recently used a startup manager utility to reduce the amount of programmes
that launched automatically on startup. I am now unable to get XP to start
past the welcome screen. If I click on a user it loads settings and then logs
off immediately. I can't get into safe mode as it does the same thing. I've
tried copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe as suggested inhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/892893but this does not help. Any other
ideas?
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What startup manager utility did you use?

If you can't login, how did you copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe?

Wait - you said you tried copy - did you copy and how did you do that?

Do you have a genuine bootable XP installation CD to get into the
Recovery Console?
 
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