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For three months, I've worked for a fledgling antispyware company and I have
a Windows XP Pro/SP1 Gateway E-Series Desktop. Well since they're so poor, I
don't have another box to test spyware on. But I just got VirtualPC a month
ago. I am an Admin on the machine. We maintain our own machines and I'm at
the bottom of the totem pole in IT. Last Friday, I ran a scan of my machine
with a legit anti-spyware product. I rebooted after the scan completed and
now I can't log in. I can move my mouse at the login screen, but I can't log
in (ie, Ctrl+Alt+Del keys don't work). I have to perform a hard-boot to get
the system restarted. I switched keyboards BUT, get this, any keyboard I use
allows me to select F2 for BIOS settings and F8 for Safe Mode. So the
system's physical keyboard port works. I checked my BIOS to make sure that
keyboard was Ok. It was. Selected "Last Known Good Config..." in Safe Mode
options screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del still didn't work. Selected each Safe Mode
option after that and Ctrl+Alt+Del still didn't work. This has happened once
before (two months ago) and I got the machine working again with the
aforementioned steps (ie, Last Know Good Config...). I have some very
important docs (don't we all) on my old image. I don't have an OS repair
disk. Unfortunately, I don't have a Ghost Image. Our "My Docs" isn't synced
to the network. So my supervisor came over and verified that my computer's
"screwed" and I then reloaded XP and Office 2003. When I reloaded Windows
though, I didn't overwrite my original corrupted OS. They both share the same
HD. My new install isn't slow and doesn't have spyware/glitches on it. I do
believe we have policies pushed down off our Windows 2000 server. Is there a
"work around" login? Is there a way to retrieve my data (ie, My Documents
folder contents, desktop files) without using DOS mode? Thanks in advance.
a Windows XP Pro/SP1 Gateway E-Series Desktop. Well since they're so poor, I
don't have another box to test spyware on. But I just got VirtualPC a month
ago. I am an Admin on the machine. We maintain our own machines and I'm at
the bottom of the totem pole in IT. Last Friday, I ran a scan of my machine
with a legit anti-spyware product. I rebooted after the scan completed and
now I can't log in. I can move my mouse at the login screen, but I can't log
in (ie, Ctrl+Alt+Del keys don't work). I have to perform a hard-boot to get
the system restarted. I switched keyboards BUT, get this, any keyboard I use
allows me to select F2 for BIOS settings and F8 for Safe Mode. So the
system's physical keyboard port works. I checked my BIOS to make sure that
keyboard was Ok. It was. Selected "Last Known Good Config..." in Safe Mode
options screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del still didn't work. Selected each Safe Mode
option after that and Ctrl+Alt+Del still didn't work. This has happened once
before (two months ago) and I got the machine working again with the
aforementioned steps (ie, Last Know Good Config...). I have some very
important docs (don't we all) on my old image. I don't have an OS repair
disk. Unfortunately, I don't have a Ghost Image. Our "My Docs" isn't synced
to the network. So my supervisor came over and verified that my computer's
"screwed" and I then reloaded XP and Office 2003. When I reloaded Windows
though, I didn't overwrite my original corrupted OS. They both share the same
HD. My new install isn't slow and doesn't have spyware/glitches on it. I do
believe we have policies pushed down off our Windows 2000 server. Is there a
"work around" login? Is there a way to retrieve my data (ie, My Documents
folder contents, desktop files) without using DOS mode? Thanks in advance.