Anilrgowda

I have an HP Pavilion 6746C with XP Professional Installed, only upgrade is 192 MB RAM. I cannot get a user name to display in the login screen. All that shows up is the "Windows XP" logo, the blue background, and the 2 lines on top and bottom, nothing else, no other text at all!

I've tried:

safe mode,
last known good configuration,
debugging mode,
safe mode with command prompt..

all give the same result. I read about a way to hit ctrl-alt-delete twice at the welcome screen to get a command line method of logging in, but I could not get that to work either.

Is there a file or files I can copy from another XP machine to the problem machine to get this thing to log in? Is this a known virus, or what?

I had a similar case on XP Home Ed. where I got users listed in login screen, but clicking any of them and entering password never got you in. I even did an OS repair on that one, thinking some system files were corrupt, but that didn't even work, I ended up with the same problem. I had to reinstall that OS from scratch (format HD, then install XP) ... is it possible this case is as bad as that?

Soln

yeah coz u know its a known issue that after running Adaware for removal of wsaupdater.exe
users looses the ability to login,,,,, and there is a fix available on their site,,, but this site is, I dont know why, is DOWN >> http://www.lavahelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html

But still i copied this from another post which is the way to replace the userinit.exe back, thru Recovery Console...

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Boot with XP CD, and press R to enter Recovery Console.....
choose ur os installtion and then enter ur Administrator password if ask and write the following lines....

C:\windows
type 'cd system32' the directory should now be
C:\windows\system32
type 'copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe'
1 file should be copied, now REBOOT!

Remember to spell "wsaupdater.exe" correctly.
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check if it can solve the issue for u or not ??