SillyDog701

[DJGM]

Something rather odd is going on with Windows 2000 on my main PC. Over the last few
days, I've been using either Mac OS X (on my iMac) or SUSE Linux 9.0 (on my main PC)
for my general internet use and listening to music. Just over an hour ago, I rebooted
back into Windows 2000, and there was some video capture stuff I needed to do.

But, after logging in, and hearing that familiar Windows 2000 startup sound, literally
within seconds, I hear the Windows logout sound, and I'm back to the login window.

So, I login again, and this time, I'm shut out even quicker. As I also have Windows XP
installed on this PC (that what I'm using right now) I rebooted, and logged into that,
to see if the same problem occurs with that. Thankfully, it does not.

On Monday evening, when I last had Windows 2000 running on this PC, I ran my usual
fortnightly security check (anti-virus, anti-spyware . . . ) and it revealed nothing out
of the ordinary. No viruses or spyware, and nowt else of a malicious nature, so I can
pretty much rule out any breach of my PC's security, as the cause of this problem.

Anyone got any ideas? Or should I just go back to my iMac for a few more days . . .?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[Antony]

If Windows 2000 reboots itself, instead of just logging you out, it might mean one or more important Windows system files is damaged, or driver/settings are wrong.

logging you out is something interesting.

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[Wellander]

Hi,
Have you tried to boot into safe mode?
If that works fine then check the event viewer for warnings or errors.
Did you corrupt you user account in windows 2000?
Did you install anything recently?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

[DJGM]

The last thing I installed on Windows 2000, was Mozilla 1.6. Before that, I don't recall, as I don't
use Windows 2000 quite as much as I once did. The Windows version used mostly on here is XP.

I'll reboot this box into Windows 2000 Safe Mode later on, and check the Event Viewer . . .

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[Wellander]

Hi,
If worsts comes to worst youy may need to use your windows 2000 disk and do a repair.
Or even a reinstall if nesscessery.

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[Wellander]

Hi,
Here is my windows 2000 strange problem.
Everytime I boot it up and after I login I get a windows file protection dialog error
and the problem is the d:\winnt\system32\dllcache driectory has no files and and windows file protection did not catch that problem.
I did not delete them eaither.

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[DJGM]

I've just tried to reboot my PC into Windows 2000 Safe Mode, and annoyingly, my aforementioned
problem still occurs. Even if I choose the startup option labelled "Last known good configuration"
from the Windows 2000 startup menu. Before I reinstall Windows 2000 (using the in-place
upgrade method) does anyone have any other suggestions to resolve this problem?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[Antony]

Do you just get logged out? OR Windows 2000 wants to restart?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040109 Camino/0.7+

[DJGM]

I just get logged out before the desktop has a chacce to appear. There's no auto reboot.

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[Wellander]

Hi,
Try to repair the installation of windows 2000.
Using the windows 2000 setup cd.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

[DJGM]

I'm currently reinstalling Windows 2000 using the "in-place upgrade" method.

This will inevitably prompt me to allow it to repair the existing installation.

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[Antony]

have you tried to login with another adminstartor account?

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[DJGM]

There is no other Administrator (or any other user) account in that installation of Windows 2000. As
it's not allowing me to login properly, I am unable to create any other user accounts at the moment.

I'm now going to wait and see what happens after I've completed this "in-place upgrade" of the OS.

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[Antony]

Okay, i know it's too late to say this...
If I remember correctly, during the installation of Windows 2000, there's an "Adminstrator" account that does not get displayed in the login window normally. Unless you use that account or changed that to another name.

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[DJGM]

The plot thickens . . .

I've completed the "in-place upgrade" reinstall of Windows 2000, and this appears to have eradicated
the unexpected automatic logout problem, but now, a new and entirely different problem has arisen.

I can now login to Windows 2000, without being logged out again straightaway, which is good, but
the explorer.exe shell seems to be screwed. Instead of loading up the desktop icons and Windows
taskbar, all I get is a random Windows Explorer window, displaying the files and folders that are
available on the Windows 2000 partition of my HDD. Which is not good.

So, I click the [x] button at the top of the window, and wait. Nothing else appears. All I'm seeing
is the desktop wallpaper, and nothing else. I then use the three fingered salute on the keyboard,
by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, to bring up the Task Manager. I notice that explorer.exe is no longer
running, so I then go to - File - New Task (Run) - and type explorer.exe into the Run dialog
that appears on screen, in the hope that the icons and taskbar would make an appearance.
Unfortunately, they do not. Instead, the same Windows Explorer as before, re-appears.

Essentially, I can run the programs installed onto Windows 2000, but I would need to use
the Task Manager window, and go to - File - New Task (Run) - each time. As I'm sure you
will agree, that could get quite annoying within a very short space of time.

Thank goodness I still have Mac OS X and Linux to fall back on. If the only computer platform
available to me was the bog standard Windows based PC, I'd have torn all my hair out by now!

Any suggestions as to what I can do next? Or should I just blitz the Win2K partition and start over?

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