Soldato
In the process of cleaning up a customers laptop.
I decided to not do a clean install, the reason it was running so slow was that the HDD was set to PIO mode.
Anyway, I did an Adaware, Spybot and CCLeaner scan out of courtesy and also installed Norton on their request.
I am now unable to logon to the laptop.
As soon as I attempt a logon the laptop logs off reverting to the logon screen.
This sounds exactly the same as the BlazeFind virus/adware but I do not think it is. I have followed the steps to remove BlazeFind by reinstalling the userinit.exe file via recovery console.
I believe the problem lies within the Registry, the entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: Userinit".
However, as I am unable to logon it makes Registry editing rather akward.
Any ideas or tips much appreciated,
Chris
I decided to not do a clean install, the reason it was running so slow was that the HDD was set to PIO mode.
Anyway, I did an Adaware, Spybot and CCLeaner scan out of courtesy and also installed Norton on their request.
I am now unable to logon to the laptop.
As soon as I attempt a logon the laptop logs off reverting to the logon screen.
This sounds exactly the same as the BlazeFind virus/adware but I do not think it is. I have followed the steps to remove BlazeFind by reinstalling the userinit.exe file via recovery console.
I believe the problem lies within the Registry, the entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: Userinit".
However, as I am unable to logon it makes Registry editing rather akward.
Any ideas or tips much appreciated,
Chris