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No usr names show in XP welcome screen?

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by markhou

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I have an HP Pavilion 6746C with XP Professional Installed, only upgrade is 192 MB RAM. I cannot get a user name to display in the login screen. All that shows up is the "Windows XP" logo, the blue background, and the 2 lines on top and bottom, nothing else, no other text at all!

I've tried:

safe mode,
last known good configuration,
debugging mode,
safe mode with command prompt..

all give the same result. I read about a way to hit ctrl-alt-delete twice at the welcome screen to get a command line method of logging in, but I could not get that to work either.

Is there a file or files I can copy from another XP machine to the problem machine to get this thing to log in? Is this a known virus, or what?

I had a similar case on XP Home Ed. where I got users listed in login screen, but clicking any of them and entering password never got you in. I even did an OS repair on that one, thinking some system files were corrupt, but that didn't even work, I ended up with the same problem. I had to reinstall that OS from scratch (format HD, then install XP) ... is it possible this case is as bad as that?

Thanks,
Mark

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by willcomp

Is the problem that you can't log into XP or that there are no pretty little icons on the screen?

by markhou

Both, the lack of "pretty icons" prevents me from logging in. Hitting ctrl-alt-delete twice will not bring up the old style login prompt, recreating the login exe by typing 'copy userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe' from within the recovery console does not help. I am thinking this requires a reinstall, unless someone has some magic in their hat I haven't seen yet...

Mark

by willcomp

Try doing a repair installation first. It's far less painful.

Yep, suspect a reinstall is in order.

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