OT but nobody reads the Win2000 board anymore

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We have several 2000 pro workstations that
are in a reboot loop after downloading and installing the latest updates as of
today 5/9. Same thing in safe mode. Any clues as to why or what to do about
it. After running a repair it will boot to the login screen and
accept the username and password and run our login scripts but the desktop
/icons never appear. Just blue screen with cursor.
 
Can you use CTRL-ALT-DEL and open the Task Manager, then go to File -> New
Task (Run) and execute explorer.exe to bring up the desktop?

Joe
 
**edit**
We have since found that ALL of our W2k pc that did automatic windows update
have the reboot problem. PC that downloade but did not install updates are
fine for now....but I'm not about to install them. Anybody know how to remove
the updates that have been downloaded but not installed and how to remove
them after they have been installed using recovery conlsole?
 
Good idea, tried it and it did work....Thanks!. Now how to have this run
without starting it by hand.
 
At the Recovery Console:

cd %SystemRoot%\$ntuninstallKB######$\spuninst

(or simply: cd $ntuninstallKB######$\spuninst)

then issue:

batch spuninst.bat

Then log on to the installation and finish the uninstall with the
Add/Remove Programs tool.

If you have many machines to do you can save the above commands in a
..txt file on a floppy then and then use the batch command to run it in
the Recovery Console:

batch input_file [output_file]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...ocs/en-us/recovery_console_cmds.mspx?mfr=true

John
 
Well it's good to know that worked (at least your installation isn't hosed)
but you'll really want to find out what's causing the problem to begin with,
heheh.

I'd suggest using John John's instructions to uninstall the most recent
update (look at the Created date of your uninstall folders to see which ones
were added most recently) and see if that makes the issue go away.

Joe
 
Double check the shell entry at the Winlogon key. It should have
Explorer.exe for its value:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"

John
 
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