Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO

+1 on that answer. I had that happen to my daughter's laptop. Between the 
infection and cleaning up the infection with Vipre Rescue that value had gotten 
blown away.  I put that value back I and I was back in business.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tammy [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: re: XP Box inaccessible

Can you access the machine's registry from a machine on the network using 
remote registry? It has worked for me a few times. (assuming userinit.exe 
exists & is intact)

Worth a look to see if the userinit value in registry is hosed.

Key:
BrokenMachine\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Normally the value for userinit is c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,

Fix the value, disconnect registry & reboot the box.

Just in case they have windows installed to a different directory/drive etc 
though might want to check here first:

Brokenmachine\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session 
Manager\Environment

Regards,

Tammy Stewart (coppertop)
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

Reply via email to