My computer is a HP laptop only about 2 years old, running windows XP professional with no modifications. I use it mostly for going on facebook, and doing homework, I had no virus blocker installed but i was using firefox. My problem first started when i started getting a lot of pop-ups and things were trying to install. I restarted my computer and there were two pornographic ICONS installed on my desktop. I deleted both icons into the recycling bin. The pop-ups continued and i decided to install an old Mcaffe CD i had laying around. It is Mcafee 2005 version 9.0. My virus scans at first returned nothing, so i updated McAfee. The search returned about 34 trojans/worms/viruses. I havent used Mcafee in a while so i accidentaly closed out the virus scan window. I decided to restart my computer to get rid of all the pop-ups so i could focus on the scan. After i restarted i tried to log in. Now when i try to log in, i input my password, then hit enter and it says "Loading your personal settings" it then goes right to another notification that says "logging off" and "Saving your personal settings". Any help WOULD be greatly appreciated. By the way, im currently on another computer. Do you display the welcome screen when you log in? If so, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and when prompted to log in, type Administrator in the username, and the same for password. If that doesn't work, LEAVE the password box blank.It just logs me right offCan you boot to Safe Mode? Quote from: MichaelBryan on January 14, 2009, 03:09:31 AM

I'm having the same problem, It wont let me log on even if i reboot in safe mode

i believe its too late
do a parallel install to save data thats all .

So I completeley reinstalled the OS, i hit enter instead of R