Solve : Accidentally Deleted userinit.exe cant login?

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Answer» hi i was doing a scan using spybot for my brothers computer and i deleted all the harmful things it found so when i restarted the computer it wouldn't let me login...it kept going from the welcome screen to the desktop screen then back to the welcome screen saying it was loading personal settings. It just keeps repeating this sequence over and over. I tried going into the recovery console so i can restore userinit.exe but its asking for admin. password and no one knows it. Is their a way around the password? or is their another way to restore the userinit.exe?You're stuck, because, you can disable recovery console password only from within Windows and userinit can be replaced only through recovery console. You may try Windows repair: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-repair-Windows-XP-t138.htmlNot sure how userinit. got involved in a Spybot scan to begin with...Good question...maybe some itchy fingers deleted something manually im not sure if its the userinit.exe that got deleted but when i was reading about other peoples computer issues they were similar to mine thats why i think it might be the issue. i was trying a few different things people were suggesting but i couldnt figure out how to burn an image to a cd disk properly so im stuck at that step i was at. not sure what else to do. Quote You may try Windows repair: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-repair-Windows-XP-t138.html i tried following this links steps and it didnt work...i followed these steps and i burned the cd but when i put it in the computer asks for a admin password...so i looked up how to get around the password and came across this website to reset the password but i dont know how to burn the image using imgburn....the link is below. http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ You will have to create a small 'fix CD' to solve this problem. Please download RC.ISO and save it somewhere you can find it. Also download MagicISO and install it. Start MagicISO. You should see a window informing you about the full version of MagicISO. In the bottom right select Try It! and the program will open. Click on FILE and then on Open and navigate to the RC.ISO file you downloaded. Select it, and click Open. First, you'll need to ADD a clean version of userinit.exe to the current RC.ISO•In the upper right pane, double click on the i386 folder. •Right click in the upper right pane and select Add Files...•Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select userinit.exe•Then click Open to add userinit.exe to the CD image. •Click File and select Save As...•Name the file RCplus and save it somewhere you can find it. Next, we'll need to burn the newly created image to a disk that we can use to fix the problem. •Put a blank CD-R disk in your CD burner and close the tray. If an AutoPlay window opens, close it. •Click on Tools and select Burn CD/DVD with ISO.... A window will appear. •Click on the little folder to the right of CD/DVD Image File then navigate to the newly created RCplus.iso Image file and click Open. •In the CD/DVD Writing Speed drop-down menu choose the 8X setting. •Under Format MAKE sure that Mode 1 is selected. •And finally, click on the Burn it! button to burn RCplus.iso to disk. Once the disk is burned, put it in the machine you want to fix and RESTART it. Boot to the CD just as you would with a Windows XP disk. At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to enter the Recovery Console. Choose the installation to be repaired by number (usually 1) and press Enter. When you are asked for the Administrator password, enter the password or leave it blank (default) and press Enter. At the C:\Windows> prompt, type the following commands pressing Enter after each one. Note: Watch the spaces. D: cd i386 copy userinit.exe c:\windows\system32 exit After putting in the third command, you should receive the message 1 file copied which will indicate that the operation succeeded. Now take out the CD and reboot your computer to normal mode. Try to log in and it should let you back in. He can't access recovery console, to start with. Then, he's not even sure, if userinit is missing.so does this mean the laptop cant be fixed since i dont know the password?Did you read my advice, which I posted twice?Do you guys have a system rescue disk with a WINPE? Boot into WINPE, copy a userinit.exe from another same system to yours and paste it to your system folder. This works much the same way like the DOS floppy disk, but more powerful and simpler. You may refer to this official article about how to make a WINPE start-up disc. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303891yes broni i did try it but it didnt work im sorry i thought i already posted that it didnt work. Quote from: jackkent on January 11, 2010, 11:34:31 PM Do you guys have a system rescue disk with a WINPE? Boot into WINPE, copy a userinit.exe from another same system to yours and paste it to your system folder. This works much the same way like the DOS floppy disk, but more powerful and simpler. You may refer to this official article about how to make a WINPE start-up disc. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303891 I dont have any cd DISKS for the laptop in question, but i will try to make that WINPE start up disk and will try again tomorrow.Thank you for your advice. What do you mean by, it didn't work? Were you able to boot from Windows XP CD?no i wasnt able to BRONI.

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hi i was doing a scan using spybot for my brothers computer and i deleted all the harmful things it found so when i restarted the computer it wouldn't let me login...it kept going from the welcome screen to the desktop screen then back to the welcome screen saying it was loading personal settings. It just keeps repeating this sequence over and over. I tried going into the recovery console so i can restore userinit.exe but its asking for admin. password and no one knows it. Is their a way around the password? or is their another way to restore the userinit.exe?You're stuck, because, you can disable recovery console password only from within Windows and userinit can be replaced only through recovery console.
You may try Windows repair: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-repair-Windows-XP-t138.htmlNot sure how userinit. got involved in a Spybot scan to begin with...Good question...maybe some itchy fingers deleted something manually im not sure if its the userinit.exe that got deleted but when i was reading about other peoples computer issues they were similar to mine thats why i think it might be the issue. i was trying a few different things people were suggesting but i couldnt figure out how to burn an image to a cd disk properly so im stuck at that step i was at. not sure what else to do. Quote

You may try Windows repair: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-repair-Windows-XP-t138.html

i tried following this links steps and it didnt work...i followed these steps and i burned the cd but when i put it in the computer asks for a admin password...so i looked up how to get around the password and came across this website to reset the password but i dont know how to burn the image using imgburn....the link is below.

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

You will have to create a small 'fix CD' to solve this problem.
Please download RC.ISO and save it somewhere you can find it.
Also download MagicISO and install it.

Start MagicISO. You should see a window informing you about the full version of MagicISO.
In the bottom right select Try It! and the program will open.
Click on FILE and then on Open and navigate to the RC.ISO file you downloaded. Select it, and click Open.

First, you'll need to ADD a clean version of userinit.exe to the current RC.ISO•In the upper right pane, double click on the i386 folder.
•Right click in the upper right pane and select Add Files...•Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select userinit.exe•Then click Open to add userinit.exe to the CD image.
•Click File and select Save As...•Name the file RCplus and save it somewhere you can find it.
Next, we'll need to burn the newly created image to a disk that we can use to fix the problem.
•Put a blank CD-R disk in your CD burner and close the tray. If an AutoPlay window opens, close it.
•Click on Tools and select Burn CD/DVD with ISO.... A window will appear.
•Click on the little folder to the right of CD/DVD Image File then navigate to the newly created RCplus.iso Image file and click Open.
•In the CD/DVD Writing Speed drop-down menu choose the 8X setting.
•Under Format MAKE sure that Mode 1 is selected.
•And finally, click on the Burn it! button to burn RCplus.iso to disk.
Once the disk is burned, put it in the machine you want to fix and RESTART it.
Boot to the CD just as you would with a Windows XP disk.
At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to enter the Recovery Console.
Choose the installation to be repaired by number (usually 1) and press Enter.
When you are asked for the Administrator password, enter the password or leave it blank (default) and press Enter.

At the C:\Windows> prompt, type the following commands pressing Enter after each one. Note: Watch the spaces.

D:
cd i386
copy userinit.exe c:\windows\system32
exit

After putting in the third command, you should receive the message 1 file copied which will indicate that the operation succeeded.
Now take out the CD and reboot your computer to normal mode. Try to log in and it should let you back in.
He can't access recovery console, to start with.
Then, he's not even sure, if userinit is missing.so does this mean the laptop cant be fixed since i dont know the password?Did you read my advice, which I posted twice?Do you guys have a system rescue disk with a WINPE? Boot into WINPE, copy a userinit.exe from another same system to yours and paste it to your system folder. This works much the same way like the DOS floppy disk, but more powerful and simpler.
You may refer to this official article about how to make a WINPE start-up disc.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303891yes broni i did try it but it didnt work im sorry i thought i already posted that it didnt work. Quote from: jackkent on January 11, 2010, 11:34:31 PM

Do you guys have a system rescue disk with a WINPE? Boot into WINPE, copy a userinit.exe from another same system to yours and paste it to your system folder. This works much the same way like the DOS floppy disk, but more powerful and simpler.
You may refer to this official article about how to make a WINPE start-up disc.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303891

I dont have any cd DISKS for the laptop in question, but i will try to make that WINPE start up disk and will try again tomorrow.Thank you for your advice. What do you mean by, it didn't work?
Were you able to boot from Windows XP CD?no i wasnt able to BRONI.

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