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I am helping a friend of the family with a 2 month old Dell Inspirion 1505,
running the Vista operating system that was supplied with the new laptop. The
owner has applied updates when available and has had no other problems. I
have cut and pasted the verbiage from another post below, as it describes our
problem, but there were no responses since June, so I was hoping this post
might have a little more luck.
The previous post read:
I put my laptop away last night and took it out this morning to boot up and
got the same message:
"Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the
event log for more details."
I hit "okay", but the message comes right back, eternally. Stuck in a loop,
perhaps?
At this point I've tried Start up Repair, repair your computer, all Safe
Mode Start ups, system restore. Some things more than once. Nothing seems
to be working.
I have also tried the actions described above, successfully restoring to an
earlier checkpoint, but to no avail. We receive this message no matter what
method of start-up we attempt. (safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe
mode with command line.) The owner is a college student that will be heading
back to school soon, and I would rather not have to wipe and reinstall all of
his applications. Has anyone got any suggestions to help me avoid that
option?
Thanks,
running the Vista operating system that was supplied with the new laptop. The
owner has applied updates when available and has had no other problems. I
have cut and pasted the verbiage from another post below, as it describes our
problem, but there were no responses since June, so I was hoping this post
might have a little more luck.
The previous post read:
I put my laptop away last night and took it out this morning to boot up and
got the same message:
"Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the
event log for more details."
I hit "okay", but the message comes right back, eternally. Stuck in a loop,
perhaps?
At this point I've tried Start up Repair, repair your computer, all Safe
Mode Start ups, system restore. Some things more than once. Nothing seems
to be working.
I have also tried the actions described above, successfully restoring to an
earlier checkpoint, but to no avail. We receive this message no matter what
method of start-up we attempt. (safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe
mode with command line.) The owner is a college student that will be heading
back to school soon, and I would rather not have to wipe and reinstall all of
his applications. Has anyone got any suggestions to help me avoid that
option?
Thanks,