Please help

[Herbidatious]

My son's laptop will not startup properly receiving message 'userinit.exe failed to initialize'. Please advise.

Thanks

 

[ken545]

Hello Herbidatious

Welcome to Safer Networking.

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Go to Kelly's and run the registry fix Restore Winlogon\Userinit and see if it will solve the problem.

Restore Winlogon\Userinit
Line #263 right side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Herbidatious]

Hi, have now resolved all problems after scan. Thanks

 

[ken545]

Thats great,glad all is well.

Ken