I recently used Spybot S&D to remove a bunch of malware. While doing that I got a message saying that the network needed to reboot because the winsock(?) was damaged,or CHANGED or something. So I clicked ok,THINKING it was the computer system itself rebooting.
Now when I reboot I enter a PASSWORD to get to the WinXP screen, no problem,then to the Welcome screen. Then the box appears with the word 'Admin' in it. It doesnt have my personal name(Dave) in that box anymore, just Admin. When I click the box it says "Loading personal settings..", the screen flickers, then it says "logging off", then "saving personal settings". All within about 1 second.
Even safe mode takes me to the welcome screen,same result. I went into setup and changed both the supervisor and the user passwords,thinking it would somehow re-add an Administrator,but no luck.As soon I I get to that Admin box, it doesn't work. I can't get to desktop let alone Control Panel!
All help greatly appreciated!! Thanks.Moved to the Microsoft Windows forum. Maybe someone will have some ideas. Do you have your XP CD?Sounds like you need to do a full system restore but you will probably need the original XP cd..No, I don't have an XP disc. I don't understand why I am not recognized as the Administrator? I can enter the setup and change things like passwords, does that mean anyone can basically do that?i got the same problem as you dave, the only soluion is to do a full system restore unless you have important documents that you need to recover by exporting them into a different harddrive. My problem was after i scanned with avg and spyboy s&d i didnt find any problems but when i found out that iexplorer.exe was causing all these POP ups i googled it and some SITE told me to delete some registry keys in windows/run something so i cant get to my desktop even in safemode.
I'm gonig to build a new computer because i had it since 2001