70% of the time my PC's fine and works normal, but sometimes it won't turn on and I have to keep unpluggin and trying again - it usually gets going again when I lay the tower on its side, motherboard...

THe drive I want to use as slave is faulty (windows immediately logsoff after logon - the problem does not seem to be the common one associated with the files wsaupdater.exe and userinit.exe) but...

If I use my current (and only) hdd as a slave to a new one with only basic windows installed will I still be able to use programs

Further to two previous posts.

I now have the original XP CD (this one works fine)

I thought I could use Recovery Console to copy Userinit.exe to Wsaupdater.exe

BUT - - just before doing...

Sorry - here it is

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Thanks once more for the advice.

So I did as said and after loading BLAH went to Microsoft > Windows NT > Current Version > Winlogon

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Thanks for the quick response.

Unfortunately the computer isn't networked and my XP CD is faulty and so I cannot access the recovery module


When used as it was it is impossible to log on and...

Ok so I tried to rid my girlfriends comp of the billions of viruses, trojans, etc before checking my banking online. I downloaded Ewido and cleaned the system - Over 8000 objects out of 180000 were...

Ok so I tried to rid my girlfriends comp of the billions of viruses, trojans, etc before checking my banking online. I downloaded Ewido and cleaned the system - Over 8000 objects out of 180000 were...