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Just did a clean up of advertising popup software (Bargain Buddy I think) and now I can not get back into Windows XP
Symptoms are - everything boots normally & presented with Login Screen
I key in my correct Windows XP username & password (which has full admin rights)
XP goes into "Load your personal settings
My Background Wallpaper comes up fine & mouse operates fine but not start button, system tray or desktop items yet
Machine thinks for about 15 secs & then dialog box of "Closing Network Connections" followed by "Saving Personal Settings" followed by "Logging user off" & then straight back to login screen
I can do this many times with exactly the same outcome
Everything is done very gracefully with no abnormal error messages
Things I have tried
(1) Logging in as another registered user - exactly the same outcom
(2) Logging in under safe mode - exactly the same outcom
(3) I have tried Cntrl-Alt-Del during personal settings loading & can't get task list up before user gets logged of
(4) I have tried restoring to last know working profile - same outcom
(5) Booted from Nortons emergency antivirus disk - scans O
I am sure it relates to the cleanup of this "Bargain Buddy" thing. I ran the Bargain Buddy uninstall and it ran cleanly. I think I also double clicked on an exe file called "Windows SD" ???
Some info
I am running Windows XP professional at the latest patch leve
I am running on an IBM Thinkpad R3
I run Partition Magic V7.1 - I have a number of disk partitions for separation of data but have only ever had one operating system installed (XP professional)
Any ideas out there ??? I am in the middle of a tough project & I really, really want to avoid rebuilding my electronic life right now !!!!
By the way, have used my wife's machine & email to right this - at least we have 1 operating machine to try & sort this mess out
Thanks
Dave
Just did a clean up of advertising popup software (Bargain Buddy I think) and now I can not get back into Windows XP
Symptoms are - everything boots normally & presented with Login Screen
I key in my correct Windows XP username & password (which has full admin rights)
XP goes into "Load your personal settings
My Background Wallpaper comes up fine & mouse operates fine but not start button, system tray or desktop items yet
Machine thinks for about 15 secs & then dialog box of "Closing Network Connections" followed by "Saving Personal Settings" followed by "Logging user off" & then straight back to login screen
I can do this many times with exactly the same outcome
Everything is done very gracefully with no abnormal error messages
Things I have tried
(1) Logging in as another registered user - exactly the same outcom
(2) Logging in under safe mode - exactly the same outcom
(3) I have tried Cntrl-Alt-Del during personal settings loading & can't get task list up before user gets logged of
(4) I have tried restoring to last know working profile - same outcom
(5) Booted from Nortons emergency antivirus disk - scans O
I am sure it relates to the cleanup of this "Bargain Buddy" thing. I ran the Bargain Buddy uninstall and it ran cleanly. I think I also double clicked on an exe file called "Windows SD" ???
Some info
I am running Windows XP professional at the latest patch leve
I am running on an IBM Thinkpad R3
I run Partition Magic V7.1 - I have a number of disk partitions for separation of data but have only ever had one operating system installed (XP professional)
Any ideas out there ??? I am in the middle of a tough project & I really, really want to avoid rebuilding my electronic life right now !!!!
By the way, have used my wife's machine & email to right this - at least we have 1 operating machine to try & sort this mess out
Thanks
Dave