Logging in

[Guest]

Suddenly on my windows 2000 professional workstation, when I try to log in, I
receive the standard: "Applying network settings" which looks great; but then
it quickly states "Saving your settings" and returns back to the CTRL-ALT-DEL
login screen. The computer doesn't reboot itself, but it won't allow me in
to the desktop. I am able to map a drive to C$ and D$ and ran anti-virus
scans and also ran a spy sweep. The spysweep found a lot of entries, but it
cleaned them all out. The virus scan only found gain adware and it
quarantined it. I rebooted the box, and it still doesn't allow me into the
desktop. I opened up the services applet on my machine, and connected to the
services on the machine giving me trouble, and all of my services seem to
have started. The event log entries I see are in the system log, and they
point to the NetBios over TCP/IP service as not starting (but it is started).
The other errors I see in the system log are for failed services that are
dependencies of the NetBios over TCP service. And all of those services
appear to have been started as well. Finally, I did try safe mode, and when
I entered the local admin password, it did the same thing it's been
doing..."Applying my settings" but then I get booted out, and back to the
CTRL-ALT-DEL login screen. Has anyone seen this? I appreciate any info that
anyone can share.

 

[Dave Patrick]

This sounds like one of two things; the drive letter has change from
original install, or the drive permissions have changed.

Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q249321/

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Suddenly on my windows 2000 professional workstation, when I try to log
in, I
| receive the standard: "Applying network settings" which looks great; but
then
| it quickly states "Saving your settings" and returns back to the
CTRL-ALT-DEL
| login screen. The computer doesn't reboot itself, but it won't allow me
in
| to the desktop. I am able to map a drive to C$ and D$ and ran anti-virus
| scans and also ran a spy sweep. The spysweep found a lot of entries, but
it
| cleaned them all out. The virus scan only found gain adware and it
| quarantined it. I rebooted the box, and it still doesn't allow me into
the
| desktop. I opened up the services applet on my machine, and connected to
the
| services on the machine giving me trouble, and all of my services seem to
| have started. The event log entries I see are in the system log, and they
| point to the NetBios over TCP/IP service as not starting (but it is
started).
| The other errors I see in the system log are for failed services that are
| dependencies of the NetBios over TCP service. And all of those services
| appear to have been started as well. Finally, I did try safe mode, and
when
| I entered the local admin password, it did the same thing it's been
| doing..."Applying my settings" but then I get booted out, and back to the
| CTRL-ALT-DEL login screen. Has anyone seen this? I appreciate any info
that
| anyone can share.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much Dave. This fix worked like a charm. I appreciate your
help.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Glad to hear of your success. You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thank you very much Dave. This fix worked like a charm. I appreciate
your
| help.