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I have XP SP2 on one of my computers. I am receiving the following error when
I attempt to boot:

C000021a Fatal System Error Session Manager Initialization system process
terminated unexpectedly with status of 0Xc00026c.

The only article that I could find which matched was an article relating to
NT4 Article ID: 317189. The error message in that article almost exactly
matched the error. I am able to boot using a third party software, and with
that I can access the registry and hard drives. So I followed the NT article
and checked removed the items from the "run once" key, and also checked to
insure that under the key "PendingFileRenameOperations" under any of the
control sets.

Actually, the problem began with a different error I was getting. There were
a series of 3 dlls olesvr32.dll, urlmon.dll, and wintrust.dll which were
apparently corrupt. I replaced each of those, but at the same time I also
removed several "bad spyware" programs from the "Run" key and removed their
corresponding files from the hard drive. That was probably my mistake!
Anyway, after replacing the third dll, and removing the spyware, I began
getting this fatal error.

Right now my only option is to reload the OS, as from what I can see, System
Restore only works if you can boot your system!
 
damox said:
Note: This post was also posted in XP Performance and Maintenance

I have XP SP2 on one of my computers. I am receiving the following
error when I attempt to boot:

C000021a Fatal System Error Session Manager Initialization system
process terminated unexpectedly with status of 0Xc00026c.

The only article that I could find which matched was an article
relating to NT4 Article ID: 317189. The error message in that article
almost exactly matched the error. I am able to boot using a third
party software, and with that I can access the registry and hard
drives. So I followed the NT article and checked removed the items
from the "run once" key, and also checked to insure that under the
key "PendingFileRenameOperations" under any of the control sets.

Actually, the problem began with a different error I was getting.
There were a series of 3 dlls olesvr32.dll, urlmon.dll, and
wintrust.dll which were apparently corrupt. I replaced each of those,
but at the same time I also removed several "bad spyware" programs
from the "Run" key and removed their corresponding files from the
hard drive. That was probably my mistake! Anyway, after replacing the
third dll, and removing the spyware, I began getting this fatal error.

Right now my only option is to reload the OS, as from what I can see,
System Restore only works if you can boot your system!
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Hi,

You can follow the KB article 307545 to restore the registry from the
recovery console. If you have SP2 on the computer you will have to uninstall
it first. To do that follow the article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;875350

Yusha


Thanks Yusha, that was a good answer though the fix would have been quite
lengthy and uncertain. I appreciate you help. As it was I ended up running
the XP Installation CD, and chosing to repair my previous install. That took
the computer back to XP SP1 but preserved all my software and settings. I
then had to reinstall SP1 as well as several updates. There has to be a
better way. I am going to work on figuring out an easier way to backup and
restore the registry. Microsoft has made rediculously hard, something that
should be simple.
 
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