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windows 2000 hangs at loading personal settings

Hi, I hope you can help me. I am running Windows 2000. Wehn I boot the computer, it just hangs at the point where it says loading personal settings. I have tried booting to safe mode as well and have no been able to boot to windows this way either. I searched on this subject and thought it may be a password issue but since this is a computer for home use I am pretty sure that I didn't have a password. Is there any way to get around this?

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sunnycoder

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shivsa

if u press and hold shift key while 2000 is loading, it will stop logon and will give u a logon screen.
at this time u can login as different user and repair the problem.

u can repair once u get your window desktop.
start | run and type sfc /scannow.

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dschwartzer

It could be a Gina problem.
Gina is a piece of software (dll) which intercepts logon and may do some pretty cool logon/logoff related stuff.
Some (many) software vendors are now implementing their own ginas.
Long story short, I suggest you do the following - open regedit, and rename
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GinaDll
into another name (using F2) - don't change the value, just the GinaDll to say _GinaDll

If there's no GinaDll at all, then skip to next suggestion.

Anyway, rename it, reboot, see if the problem disappeared.

Notice: your logon screen may look a little different. If the problem is solved, nice, get the dll name that was it ginaDLL's value, find what program it belongs to, uninstall that software.

Hope this helps
d
(taken from my post on this thread: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20766495/One-beep-and-hangs-at-welcome-msg-during-bootup.html)

timmster

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How do I get to the regedit. The system always just boots into Windows 2000. The only other thing I have been able to get it to do is to open the Bios, or change to safe mode. How do i get to the point where i can see the regedit? I have tried hitting many of the f keys while booting, but it always goes to the same place and hangs. Thanks

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GinaDll

sunnycoder

try botting from windows 2000 CD

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