Cant start my computer!!!!

[Nik Seume]

Every time I try to start up my computer it puts me
through to a select user screen. Then when I click on my
profile (the only one available) it automatically
switches over to saving my profile and shutting down the
computer again. I have tried logging on in various
different safe modes but to no avail. Does anyone know
whether this is some new kind of virus or whether this is
some kind of common problem with Window XP. If anyone
can help please do. Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Nikolas Seume

 

[Kelly]

Hi Nik,

Suggestions:

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and
then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545