frozen during login screen?

[peter]

My winXP SP2 when booted and unattended for a few minutes, stop responding
at the login screen where user accounts icons are displayed. Clicking on the
icon does not produce a password box. In fact, clicking on anything does not
have response (not even shutdown). Alt-ctrl-del also doesn't do anything.
The only solution is to turn off the power and reboot and not wait too long
to login.

Other than this, once I logged in, there is no problem.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Default limit is 30 seconds. You can change it in System Properties.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

run from a boot to CD and Recovery Console (press 'r' for Repair), the
command: (cd drive letter here):/i386/expand.exe (cd drive letter
here):/i386/winlogon.ex_ %windir%/system32/winlogon.exe

 

[Bob Qin [MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your posting here.

The problem can occur if there is some third-party software that are not
loaded properly. I would like to recommend that you run msconfig.exe to
disable Startup Group and Third party services on the Windows XP computer.
What is the result?

You can refer to the following document for more information:

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Bob Qin
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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From: "peter" <[email protected]>
Subject: frozen during login screen?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:26:08 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

My winXP SP2 when booted and unattended for a few minutes, stop
responding
at the login screen where user accounts icons are displayed. Clicking
on the
icon does not produce a password box. In fact, clicking on anything
does not
have response (not even shutdown). Alt-ctrl-del also doesn't do
anything.
The only solution is to turn off the power and reboot and not wait
too long
to login.

Other than this, once I logged in, there is no problem.

Any ideas?