WIN2000 Password Error

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Thomas McGuire

When logging into WIN2000, the system accepts my password
and begins to load my settings. OR so the little box
tells me. after a few seconds i am kicked back out to the
password entry box with no error message. Repairing
windows did not fix this, and I have no way to enter the
system to retrieve my product ID. Is there an alternate
spot for the ID, or am I up a creek with out a paddle...

Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.

-Thanks,
Thomas
 
There can be a number of causes for this. Corrupt user profile is one and if you can
logon as another user then that is the problem in which case the corrupt profile
would have to be deleted by a user in the administrators group. Another cause is if
your boot partition letter for some reason does not match that drive letter assigned
during installation. See the first link below for details on that one. Other issues
would be corrupt critical Windows system files or user not having read/list/execute
permissions to critical system files in the systemroot folder such as when someone
decides to give the everyone group deny permissions not realizing that administrators
are in the everyone group. It might help if you could access the Event Viewer
remotely from another computer since more than likely there are pertinent error
messages in the system and application logs. It would be worthwhile to boot into the
alternate start menu by hitting F8 once a second while booting and first trying last
known good configuration and if that fails try safe mode. You may end up having to
try an upgrade installation by booting from the install cdrom as described in the
last link that will necessitate that you first install your service pack and then all
critical updates, but not connecting to the internet until you have some sort of
firewall protection, but you would need your product ID for that. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q249321
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175
 
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