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Have you tried booting to safe mode? If that didn't work, it may come down to re-installing the entire system.
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Have you tried booting to safe mode? If that didn't work, it may come down to re-installing the entire system.

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yes. I've tried safe mode. I couldn't get in at all at first but as I said I eventually restored manually.
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yes. I've tried safe mode. I couldn't get in at all at first but as I said I eventually restored manually.

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Pull the HDD out and slave it to another machine and do a full scan for viruses.....
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Pull the HDD out and slave it to another machine and do a full scan for viruses.....

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Ok. That is not so easy with the laptop. I think I'll just pull the data off and wipe the machine.<br />
Thanks
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Ok. That is not so easy with the laptop. I think I'll just pull the data off and wipe the machine.
Thanks

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I have a users laptop running xp home. it had the problem where as soon as it logs in at the welcome screen it logs straight back off again. I tried all the suggestions and eventually got in by doing the manual restore described on this site (copying the files manually while in recovery console). This has allowed me to access windows but there is still lots wrong. If I try to open a command it closes within seconds, Same thing with task manager. I cannot run any executables and cannot open system restore. I cannot open regedit either. Because I can't install anything I cannot do a scan (it only had an out of date norton antivirus installed). Any ideas what I can do before re-installing the entire system?
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I have a users laptop running xp home. it had the problem where as soon as it logs in at the welcome screen it logs straight back off again. I tried all the suggestions and eventually got in by doing the manual restore described on this site (copying the files manually while in recovery console). This has allowed me to access windows but there is still lots wrong. If I try to open a command it closes within seconds, Same thing with task manager. I cannot run any executables and cannot open system restore. I cannot open regedit either. Because I can't install anything I cannot do a scan (it only had an out of date norton antivirus installed). Any ideas what I can do before re-installing the entire system?

Windows XP cannot run exe or regedit and taskmanager disappears

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.

Windows XP

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.