WinXP keeps logging me off after I login. Please help!!!

[Guest]

I had somebody call me with a comptuer problem and so I went over to there
house and sat down at the computer and was prompted with the loggin screen. I
logged in and then I could see the desktop and it would act ass if I clicked
log off and then it would log back in. It would keep on repeating this
process over and over. It is like it was rebooting every time I would see the
desktop but it wouldnt actually completely reboot (just logged me off and
logged me back in). I tried logging in as the administrator and the same
thing would happen. I then tried to boot up in safe mode but yet again the
exact same thing happened.

I asked him what the last thing that he did was and he told me that this
little popup came up that same something like this "Updates are finiched
installing please restart your computer" and then you could either click
restart or cancel. He also said that if you wouldnt click cancel then it
would restart in 15 seconds because it had a coutdown clock on there. He said
that the pop up that came up looked like a windows screen (with the windows
flag on it).

The computer that he has is a Compaq and so he called up there support line
and they said that it was a probelm with WinXP SP2. Well the WinXP that he
got was one with SP2 pre-installed on it.

If anybody has any ideas on what I can do please let me know. I can
re-format his comptuer but I would like that to be the last option incase I
run into this again.
Thanks!!


-haryy

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Encountered this once before. No login was ever completing and system kept
returning to "Login", eventhough no multiplue user accounts were set up.

Forced to do a repair re-install (not with a Recovery CD) and then do
anti-spyware detections.

 

[Guest]

So this is the only solution that is possible. Is there anything else that I
can do instead of this?? Something to were I don't have to repair windows.

-haryy