tweakui autologon causes xp pro to freeze

[Guest]

My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon feature for
his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse cursor, and that's it.
The hard drive light looks like it's working, but even after several hours,
nothing happens. Booting into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but
neither the mouse or keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.
Holding down the SHIFT key during boot also doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306084

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon feature for
| his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
| starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
| screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse cursor, and that's it.
| The hard drive light looks like it's working, but even after several hours,
| nothing happens. Booting into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but
| neither the mouse or keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.
| Holding down the SHIFT key during boot also doesn't work.
|
| Any suggestions?

 

[Uncle Joe]

How can the OP follow your fine advice if his
laptop's keyboard and mouse are inoperative?

 

[Steve N.]

Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306084

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449

None of the above will work if the keybaord and mouse are inoperative.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

A repair install will not reverse changes made to the registry by TweakUI.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

My boss decided to be clever, and enabled the TweakUI autologon feature for
his XP Pro laptop. Since that, however, the machine will not boot. When it
starts up, you get the usual windows loading animations, then a blank blue
screen (the default desktop background) with a mouse cursor, and that's it.
The hard drive light looks like it's working, but even after several hours,
nothing happens. Booting into safe mode leads to the login prompt, but
neither the mouse or keyboard work, so you can't get in that way either.
Holding down the SHIFT key during boot also doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

You can edit the registry offline using BartPE:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm

However, the challenge will be finding the changes in the registry
TweakUI made that disabled the mouse and keyboard.

Other than that the only way to fix it may be a clean install of the OS.

Good luck!

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

How can the OP follow your fine advice if his
laptop's keyboard and mouse are inoperative?

Another fine example of Carey's reading comprehension skills.

Steve