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Windows NT stops responding after logon

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by shanghai sam

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I have NT4 server with service pack 4. It accepts the user name and password but after waiting for hrs there is no desktop it stops on the green screen. I can access the server from network but cannot run any application on the server like my DominoMail server as NT doesn't go till desktop.

Can somebody help me out

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by maxwell edison

I've seen this before, and the problem was resolved by simply installing Service Pack 6. Microsoft acknowledged this problem a while back, and reportedly fixed this bug with service pack 4 (It was listed as fixed with the SP4 documentation). However, SP6 is the one that really seemed to fix it.

See this link for the latest download information for Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/SP6/allSP6.asp

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Good luck,

Maxwell

by jcox303

Could you open task manager and see what's hanging? It might be software related.

by dc1

Besides the upgrdeing the service pack from the previous post have you tried logging into the server with a different account? The account's profile could be corrupt so it cannot load.

by joseph moore

EXPLOERE.EXE is not running. Like Answer2 says, open Task Manager. You will not see it running in the list of Processes.
Using the keyboard, go to File -> New Task
Type in explorer.exe and click OK.
That might force explorer to run properly.

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