I've just had a situation occur that's keeping me from doing an
account logon under Windows XP Home. I can still get running under
Safe Mode but normal startup fails when I try to select my account.

Whether I click on my account name or 'administrator' from the startup
screen, the frame on the graphic highlights but I never get the
"loading settings" message. After 30-60 seconds, the highlighted frame
on the graphic reverts to its non-selected state. When I restart in
Safe Mode, the event viewer shows that I've logged a security audit
failure with "Unknown User name or bad password" as the fault. (The
accounts I'm trying to login to have never had passwords on them.)

I've tried doing a 'System Restore' to the last restore point (and one
previous to it) but that hasn't helped. An online virus scan with RAV
antivirus detects no problems.

Before I reformat the disk and reinstall Windows from scratch, is
there anything else that I should try to get things back to normal?
I'm a bit stuck here so any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks, Bob

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