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by jspaz

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I am running Windows XP Home. When I attempt to login to my computer, My wallpaper displays for a brief second and I am kicked back to the login screen. The same thing happens when I attempt to boot in safe mode. Attempting to boot to the command prompt launches Windows and the same thing happens. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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by mark

I've seen a couple issues cause this. It could be a virus, which you would need to hook your HD up to a PC with an updated virus scanner and scan it. While hooked up, run CHKDSK to check for problems. You could also boot to the Recovery Console and run CHKDSK. I've also seen an older version of PCAnywhere cause this. You need version 10.5 or later on XP. To fix that you need to edit the registry and change the AWGINA.DLL reference to MSGINA.DLL. You can edit the registry if hooked up to another PC with regedt32 and importing the hive or you can use an offline registry editor like you can find here:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

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