No username login icons

[Pete Provencher]

WinXP Home

WHen I boot up and it goes to the login screen I don't have a username login
icon to click on. I tired to fix it by booting to cd and doing an automatic
repair where it installs the files. I gave a new username but nothing shows
up.

I tried to look at things through the recovery console but my admin password
does not work. I'm trying tat the minimum to get to the c prompt.

Pete Provencher

 

[Phil]

Boot to safe mode, log into the hidden administrator account, do a system
restore to a time when the users were still listed. They should come back.

 

[Guest]

When you boot to Safe Mode, open User Accts, check Use Welcome Screen and
uncheck Fast User Switching. You should Run this command: control
userpasswords2 and make sure "Users must enter a password and name...." is
checked. If you have Tweakui, check the Logon settings there, too.

 

[Pete Provencher]

When I try this I have the same problem. It goes to safe mode bu then goes
to the username login screen and I have no icons to click on.

Pete provencher

 

[Phil]

When you boot to safe mode you should see the hidden user account called
administrator. If you don't try hitting ctrl-alt-del twice while on the
welcome screen. This should make the old style win2k login box come up and
you can log in as user: administrator - password: blank, unless you changed
it.
If you were using the hidden admin account for daily use(you didn't create a
new user for yourself to use), then it possible that the admin account has
become corrupt, in which case you'd need to do a repair install. This is why
you create a user for yourself to use and leave the hidden admin account for
a "just in case" user account.