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RussellXPD

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  1. Yes, thanks, Black Viper had some useful hints. I didn't know that using services.msc was safer than msconfig, or why, but I sensed it because I knew that if I copied the settings from a sister computer I would be unlikely to do much harm. And there was the glaring fact that well over half the services had been shut off. Things are working fine now but I'll be keeping a sharp eye out for further trouble.!
  2. I thought it would take me longer. I have a solution of a sort. This current problem of mine was about shut-down services. I don't know how 100 services disabled themselves, but they did. One service shut down USB, another TCP/IP, another Device Manager display and so on. My wife has a PC of similar vintage. I laboriously copied off the settings (Automatic\Manual etc) from 120 or so services and replicated the settings on my own PC. USB connections, the internet, Device Mgr display all came back. I'd love to know how the services cut themselves off but, unless I get another nasty shock, I'm getting close to the situation before the Trouble. And I don't want to repeat it! Thanks Jaclaz - you gave me some good leads. Russell
  3. Thanks Jaclaz I didn't know there were two breeds of mice, ones that do and ones that dont. But if all the USB sockets are down, that's the bigger issue. I'm going to try and turn on these services or drivers that may have been turned off somehow. The PSU btw is new and shouldn't be a problem. If that doesn't work I'll disassemble as much as I can, give it a clean, and test what I can piece by piece. After that I'll do what I did last time: extract stuff off the HD with SATA and then do another format C. But it probably won't come to that. I'm interested in your suggestions on passwords but that's not holding me up at the mo. I'll let you know how I get on. Russell
  4. .. and more.. Worse - I've just realised that all my USB sockets are being rejected. Also, in Device Manager, nothing is showing up. It invites me to do Disk Cleanup, is all. Is there a routine for turning on Services that might activate these drivers or whatever? R
  5. Thanks jaclaz I've just had another look at the /315231/ entry you mentioned. When I read it the first time, I couldn't do anything with it because I was blocked at each of the 3 stages I originally mentioned. I see now that I might be able to use it, now that I can get access. I have to say, being only an "intermediate", I'm not clear whether I want or need Automatic Logon or not. All I originally wanted was to log straight on to the desktop. (No-one dangerous in the house.) Also, after my recent experience, I'm not inclined to take any risks with the registry etc. To make further difficulties my current internet connection isn't working, all USB mice and keyboards are rejected and even USB M+Kb adapted into the PS2 sockets. Then I thought another System Restore would improve the game, and found that System Restore had been turned off! Needless to say, not by me. It's back on now. My AV doesn't appear to be working either although MalwareBytes says the system is okay. There is a funny side to this but I'm going to need a lot of patience. Russell
  6. Thank you, thank you, jaclaz You've led me to the answer, so the problem as originally posed has been solved. I didn't mention that during most of the time of the trouble, I had a KVM system set up, that is two computers sharing monitor and USB connections to mouse and keyboard. I was aware of this, and at one stage shifted back to single monitor plus PS2 mouse and keyboard. It produced the same result at that time. This time though, after your "USB keyboards behaved queerly" message I tried again, and this time I was able to get through to the Safe Mode\Network mode shown on your post above. I went to System Restore and back two days. This is a by-the-way, but since then the PC has been behaving like a sick animal, intermittently rejecting USB mouse and keyboard and a host of minor sillinesses. I expect to bring it back under control in a day or two! Another bit of "unfinished business" is that I'd very much like to know why I'm barred at a passport barrier where to my knowledge, no passport existed. But like Aladdin, you let me in through the locked door. Thanks (and to Ponch). Russell
  7. I've read these possible solutions, thanks, and tried again some of the possibilities. As to "Turn on normally > Windows starts normally, 1 minute then goes to this panel: Unable to log you on because of an account restriction. At this point, mouse and keyboard are frozen. Stop." One mistake here. The system needed time to respond, so after a delay I did get access for mouse and keyboard. So I could type in the Administrator password. The trouble is, at no time has there been an administrator password and I've never added any users. So I would have thought (blank) Enter would have got me through. Is there any default password supplied by MS which could be expected here? As to Try again: Tap F8 during boot. As suggested, I tried different variants, pressures, times, to find the other options including Safe Mode and VGA Mode but couldn't reach them. Reached the Boot Men u screen but with frozen mouse and Kbd Try again: Hold down Del key during boot up. This takes me to BIOS - CMOS Setup Utility There was a backward step here. This time I was able as before to reach BIOS-CMOS but now it is asking for a password, with an 8 character limit. But as before, there has never been one. I read about the FixIt facility with a download available. I could download it on the other computer but can't see any way that's going to resolve this particular problem. I will keep trying the F8 tricks but I'm a bit disheartened that the password is now cropping up in BIOS-CMOS. (Off to work.) Russell
  8. Thanks, jaclaz! That's very detailed. I can't do it until tomorrow morning. (UK) If I reach Safe Mode presumably I can retick the 'Users must enter a Username and password to use this computer.' Anyway I can have another crack at tapping and see if I can get in. Many thanks Russell
  9. Hi - I hope someone may be able to help I recently had to reinstall (format C:\) Win XP Home initially because of a power failure. I thought it had fried the HD, but it hadn't. I did this successfully (7 year old system, 30 Gb C drive2 Gb RAM 100+ Gb HDD.) I use it mainly for non internet. Recently it has been taking me to User Login boot screen, unnecessary for me because I'm a sole user and usually log in to desktop. After reading advice I did this, and only this: I went to Run > control userpasswords2 and unticked where it said: Users must enter a Username and password to use this computer. That's all. Now I'm locked out. These are the details: Turn on normally > Windows starts normally, 1 minute then goes to this panel: Unable to log you on because of an account restriction. At this point, mouse and keyboard are frozen. Stop. Try again: Tap F8 during boot. This takes me to Boot Menu > Select first boot device > choices are Removable disc, HDD, CDRom, LAN But again mouse and keyboard are frozen. Stop. Try again: Hold down Del key during boot up. This takes me to BIOS - CMOS Setup Utility. Now at least I have use of the keyboard, but I don't know what to do next. Is there any way. At the moment I don't think I could even do a reinstall! Any help gratefully received Russell
  10. Thanks Ponch I noted your amendment and I agree, I wouldn't be saving time compared to Windows Update, which burst into life when I wasn't expecting it. I'll leave well alone now: I'm very happy with my 13 yo OS and I've got a better idea of how NLite can help. R
  11. Thanks Ponch and submix8c I didn't fully understand this, Ponch, tho' I guess you're saying I've got to first of all got to put in the installation disc data and add to that. However it doesn't matter so much now as I 'll explain. Last Sunday I'd used the XP SP2 CD to format C:\ leaving two other internal drives untouched. It went quite well. Between yesterday and now a number of steps took place and this what happened. Belarc told me I lacked XP SP3 and 118 updates, several critical. Using the expertreview website, I managed to download appropriate updates, 140 of them, they went in via UDC.zip and unpacked to UDC folder. Also from a YouTube video I saw the exact page process in MS.com needed to download SP3. I'd tried unsuccessfully twice already and got a lecture about migrating to Win 8.1. As you do. I downloaded and implemented SP3. Wahey! Very pleased, I started using my computer. Later in the day I discovered the PC was downloading umpteen updates. After these had been implemented I compared them with the info from Belarc. Which said that now only 4 updates were outstanding. I located and set up 2 of these. So, the main problem is solved and although it's not a critical issue now, I'm going to try and find out how NLite could have helped me if I'd known how to work it. Thank you both for the advice and corroboration. Russell
  12. Hi I'm Russell, new to NLite. When I saw it I thought it can be the answer the my problem but I've got stuck at the second hurdle. I've got an XP system, 8yo, 40Gb clear space on C drive, 2Gb memory, and a healthy system. Recently I had to reinstall because of a power failure etc etc. In the process I lost SP3 and a hundred odd updates. From the web pages expertreviews.co.uk I saw that I could use a slipstream process to put SP3 and all the updates back using NLite. I've got back SP3 and the updates downloaded ready on the PC. NLite downloaded fine but the problem came in locating the the folder with the updates. In my case this was a folder called UDC with all the updates in. When I tried to locate the folder in NLite I got this message: "Make sure that the selected folder or drive contains the i386 or AMD64 directory and proper Windows installations files. nlite is for a preinstall environment ..... Press OK. Which I did Going back to Browse I chose the right location again and again the above message came up. It seems I'm missing one process in the sequence. Could anyone please tell me how to move forward? Russell
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