Windows XP wont let me

I am in the fight of my life ¦ Help

[ukgimp]

Doing a favour for a relative I downloaded the patches required for XP. I brought them on disk to the relatives office and proceeded to install them one by one. Two machaines are next to each other so I did them both. Then when I tried to restart and log on I get an error message saying that windows had a problem varyfying the XP.

All the machines are XP home and are legal they came factory installed.

I have tried copying the wpa.dbl from the last working machine but it wont let me copy the file into the C:\i386

I have been told there is an option to to get the last working config but I cannot seem to find that in set up.

I have never been so up against it, they have some complex config on for banking software.

If anyone can help and the solution works I will but you 10 beers at Pubcon

Cheers

[skipfactor]

>>get the last working config but I cannot seem to find that in set up

Reboot, then hit F8 before Windows loads.

[ukgimp]

Still having the same problem with the last known working config

?

[skipfactor]

Yes, it works sometimes. Have you tried booting from the WinXP CD & choosing the repair option? This is usually worthless too.

>>when I tried to restart and log on I get an error message saying that windows had a problem varyfying the XP.

What exactly is the error message? Is it a security thing thinking you're pirating? If so, believe it or not, a phone call to Microsoft will resolve it.

If not, I would try the online update on each machine (Start, All Programs, Windows Update). If that didn't work, I'd try reinstalling Windows.

[ukgimp]

>>Is it a security thing thinking you're pirating?

yes, but I am not.

I would do the update, but I cant even get past the logon.

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I am not happy, my whole weekend gone when i was only trying to help someone

[skipfactor]

What's the stop message? Sounds like an activation issue. I had to call the dorks for "reactivation" when I swapped motherboards.

[ukgimp]

if it go into safe mode without network support I can get in, Where is the logic in that. The Admin account is not the same as the user account.
So at least they can work with super large icons

[ukgimp]

managed to sort it. Christ only knows how, mixture of a bit of this a bit of that.

Made my day :):) as it has not ruined tommorrow and I may well get ruined tonight. Got 20 bottles of fosters with my name on them.

Cheers

[skipfactor]

I would have been fearful of doing any MS updates/patches from a CD. Now I know for sure. Cheers.