Power loss at "Saving your personal settings..."

[Dave Brown]

I had the rather bad luck of having a power loss to my
computer when logging off and Windows was at the "Saving
your personal settings" dialog. Now, when I try to boot
up, the computer hangs up forever at the "Loading your
personal settings" dialog. So, clearly my "Personal
Settings" are not happy. Is there a way to clear the
personal settings? I only have a single account on the
affected machine and I have autologon enabled. I have
tried messing around with the Recovery Console, but had no
luck. Is there a "personal settings" file somewhere that's
corrupt that I can delete? I'm not too concerned about
this, I only installed windows 2000 on this machine a few
days ago, so if I have to rebuild from scratch, I will,
with no loss of data. Anyway, if there's a quick "delete
this file here..." fix, I'll try that, otherwise, rebuild.

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Enkidu]

I had the rather bad luck of having a power loss to my
computer when logging off and Windows was at the "Saving
your personal settings" dialog. Now, when I try to boot
up, the computer hangs up forever at the "Loading your
personal settings" dialog. So, clearly my "Personal
Settings" are not happy. Is there a way to clear the
personal settings? I only have a single account on the
affected machine and I have autologon enabled. I have
tried messing around with the Recovery Console, but had no
luck. Is there a "personal settings" file somewhere that's
corrupt that I can delete? I'm not too concerned about
this, I only installed windows 2000 on this machine a few
days ago, so if I have to rebuild from scratch, I will,
with no loss of data. Anyway, if there's a quick "delete
this file here..." fix, I'll try that, otherwise, rebuild.

You could try deleting the user's profile from C:\Documents and
Settings if you can get to it.

Cheers,

Cliff