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I have only two accounts on my machine: Admin and a User account. When
i logout of User or Admin accounts and get to the Welcome screen, i
cannot log back in. The logon white boxes are there, but i cannot type
my password inside of them. There is no blinking cursor in those boxes.
Only way it works is that if i reboot, then the boxes have a cursor on
the Welcome screen. But logging out and then trying to log back in, is
a no go.
I tried these things:
1) Ran 3 different antivirus programs
2) 3 or 4 different antispyware programs
4) Uninstalled all the services in my systray (Avast, MS Antispyware,
Weatherpulse), which had no effect.
5) Did System Restore.
6) Ran system file checker (sfc /scannow).
7) Looked at windows event viewer, which is not showing anything at all
of interest.
8) Give up??
Only two things remaining are Windows Repair and a complete reinstall.
I HATE reinstalling...since i just did that like a month ago.
There are two things worth mentioning:
-I think its related to the fact that i had installed Netscape 8.1
(yeah, stupid me). After removing it, this login problem had started.
As far as i know, things were going fine before that.
or
-A few days ago i found out that Starforce had secretly found a way to
install itself. Probably from a game demo i tried. Was successfull in
removing starforce with their utility.
My blame is going to Netscape though...it borked something.
Anyone want to suggest anything (logs, etc)? Or is repair/reinstall the
only thing to do?
Using WinXp pro Sp2 with all the updates.
i logout of User or Admin accounts and get to the Welcome screen, i
cannot log back in. The logon white boxes are there, but i cannot type
my password inside of them. There is no blinking cursor in those boxes.
Only way it works is that if i reboot, then the boxes have a cursor on
the Welcome screen. But logging out and then trying to log back in, is
a no go.
I tried these things:
1) Ran 3 different antivirus programs
2) 3 or 4 different antispyware programs
4) Uninstalled all the services in my systray (Avast, MS Antispyware,
Weatherpulse), which had no effect.
5) Did System Restore.
6) Ran system file checker (sfc /scannow).
7) Looked at windows event viewer, which is not showing anything at all
of interest.
8) Give up??
Only two things remaining are Windows Repair and a complete reinstall.
I HATE reinstalling...since i just did that like a month ago.
There are two things worth mentioning:
-I think its related to the fact that i had installed Netscape 8.1
(yeah, stupid me). After removing it, this login problem had started.
As far as i know, things were going fine before that.
or
-A few days ago i found out that Starforce had secretly found a way to
install itself. Probably from a game demo i tried. Was successfull in
removing starforce with their utility.
My blame is going to Netscape though...it borked something.
Anyone want to suggest anything (logs, etc)? Or is repair/reinstall the
only thing to do?
Using WinXp pro Sp2 with all the updates.