Can't Log Into Windows! Help!

[Guest]

If someone could help me on this, I would really appreciate it. My computer
went into stand-by on Sunday and when I came back I had to log on again. But
when I tried logging on again by clicking on my username, it would say for a
moment "Loading your personal settings" and THEN it would say right after
that "Logging off... saving your settings". I've tried restarting the
computer and also shutting it down, and each time I would start it again it
would ask me to click on my username, which it does the same thing like
before. I've called for some help from a campus network helper and we tried
using the Windows Recovery CD, and we didn't find any way to make that work.

I noticed that right before my computer went into stand-by on Sunday,
Windows kept bugging me about some Automatic Update. I kept saying "Restart
Later". I'm guessing that while I was gone it decided to update anyways, and
I don't know what was trying to update.

I really can't lose my computer information. The last time I updated was
the end of May. Since then I wrote a 176-measure score that hasn't been
backed up and I bought several tracks online that I might lose now, as well
as several papers for school. I hope someone will have an answer in how I
can log on to Windows and try fixing whatever happened. Or if anyone knew
what updated on Nov. 19 for Windows that might be helpful.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I will suggestion that you first boot Windows into Safe Mode and copy your
all valuable data to some other partition as well. To boot into safe mode,
turn on your PC, after POST screen and before Windows XP logo press F8 to
bring the Boot Menu and press enter on Safe mode. After that, open Control
Panel - Add / Remove Programs and uninstall latest updates the Windows XP has
installed. Restart your computer and see if you can boot normally as before.

If that doesn't solve the problem then please describe that now what happens
when Windows boot up.

Let us know!