Automaticly logged off as I logon why?

[Joseph Kubicki]

My boss brought in his computer from home (XP home). When I click on his
name at the welcome screen it Starts to logon on and start to logoff before
I see the desktop and I back to the welcome screen. Tried safe mode with no
luck. Virus/Worm? If so which one and whats the fix? The system should have
Norton Antivirus on it but I don't know if he keeped up to date

 

[Nick Spence]

This happens when you do not activate windows xp within
the 30 day period. Your computer boots normally, goes to
the log in screen (in enabled) and when you log on, it
immediatly logs off and displays the welcome screen again.
You may have to re-install windows.

If it's an illegal version of windows, your out of luck.
go out and buy it.

 

[Joseph Kubicki]

I'm used to Pro version which would give you the warning before log on. But
your says Home doesn't do this because of the welcome screen?

 

[Joseph Kubicki]

Ok I did some research and Renamed the WPA.DBL file in recovery mode and
restart windows. I clicked on the users name an was asked to Activate
windows which I did and it Activated fine. But then I go kicked out again.
Why?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Ok I did some research and Renamed the WPA.DBL file in recovery mode and
restart windows. I clicked on the users name an was asked to Activate
windows which I did and it Activated fine. But then I go kicked out again.

The problem is *not* to do with Activation at all. Something loaded on
startup is crashing - and the system's 'automatically restart' is
cutting in. Turn this off: in Control Panel - System - Advanced, click
Settings in the Startup and Recovery section. There uncheck
'automatically restart'. You can also usefully change the 'write
debugging information' to (none). You may now get a Blue screen
failure instead, but at least will get some guidance as to what is
happening