Weird XP Home Logon Question....Please Help

[bob4432]

i have a friend computer that is having a weird problem. it has windows xp home w/ sp2. when you start it up, all seems fine and you get your start screen, then you get the "Log On to Windows" and i can see Administrator as the user name grayed out with no passord behind a new message box that pops up saying "Unable to log you on because of an account restriction" with an ok only button. once you click ok, you are taken to the screen where all the user names on the computer are listed. when you click on any of them it says "loading you personal settings", then "logging off" and then back to the screen with the popup stating "Unable to log you on because of an account restriction".

any ideas what the hell is going on?

do i need to take my handy floppy out and reset the passwords?

 

[Anubis]

that is odd, might wanna post this in the operating systems forum tho

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Anubis
that is odd, might wanna post this in the operating systems forum tho

damn, it's late, i thought i was in the o/s forum........thanks

 

[LatinJones]

I don't know if this is related to your problem but there is a knowledgebase article out there....

http://support.microsoft.com/d...?scid=kb;EN-US;q303846

Here is another...

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBK/tip5200/rh5293.htm

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: LatinJones
I don't know if this is related to your problem but there is a knowledgebase article out there....

http://support.microsoft.com/d...?scid=kb;EN-US;q303846

Here is another...

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBK/tip5200/rh5293.htm

thanks, i will try the 2nd one as i already read the first one.