userinit.exe failed to initialize

[Ben]

Well, I have a friends computer im suppose to fix, XP home Edition sp1
Was running slow and all, and not in a pretty site... Ran Adaware SE and
found like 350 files or so in the urgent section...

all was fine until reboot, goes fine until you click on a user, then comes
up this message... - Userinit.exe - failed to intialize - and had some
code, (didnt write down)

How would you go about fixing this?
Or what Registry Keys could i look at to make sure its all good?

If i cant find a solution, i'm just going to do a windows repair, but would
rather a different solution if can...
quick one... if i do a windows repair, would it delete all the icky things
in registry?

 

[Craig]

Hey bbeeaannss,

Check the following reg key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlog

The value for USERINIT is C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe

You can use KB article 307545 to fix this. PART ONE should be all you need
to do.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from
starting


Check out KB article 306952 (see link below) on what happens with a repair.

What an in-place Windows 2000 upgrade changes and what it does not change
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306952/EN-US

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[Ben]

Thanks all good now