Re: OT: Weird XP Fault

gazzafield wrote:

> "Catman" <catman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8JO3f.180236$WT5.157509@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> gazzafield wrote:
>>
>>> Computers at work. Running Windows XP Pro. Any administrative user can
>>> logon and work normally. Any user who is not an administrator can login
>>> but no icons, taskber, start menu or anything at all appears on their
>>> desktop
>>> except for the pointer. If you make these users an administrator on the
>>> machine then they work normally.
>>>
>>> This says to me it is a permissions issue. The question is where?
>>>
>>> I was told by one of the tutors the limited information of "A message
>>> came
>>> up saying Windows Update something and then a countdown. When the
>>> countdown
>>> finished they restarted and then we couldn't login". Useful eh?
>>>
>>> First suspect was a virus but it has been fully updated and scanned and
>>> Sophos says there are no viruses.
>>>
>>> Any ideas anyone. Because I am FIIK.
>>
>> Is this admin on local machine, or domain admin?
>
>
>
> It's when logging on as a local admin. We can't logon as domain admin as
> the domain is unavailable due to our wonderful network support team
> buggering up the connection to the main campus!

So you are only logging on to the local machine, or is it trying to do
cahced authentication of the domain users? Or to put it another way, at
the ctr-alt-del screen, make sure you have three boxes and tell us what's
in the 'Log on to' box.
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