Well, I have recently wiped my hard drive and reinstalled XP and I did the usual, 
set up my fathers account and mine as well, also as usual I made sure that I had 
my account created in the special users key in the registry. whenever I try to switch 
or even log on at startup, It will start to load and then it will crash to an extremely 
fast blue screen, I know that there is a little bit on text on the screen but I'm 
telling you, that it flashes so fast that reading it is not possible. Anyhow after 
that quick spasm, the system reboots.

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re: Desktop causes crash and reboot Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:48 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) What is a special users key in the registry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop causes crash and reboot Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 9:38 am Posted by Jake (20 messages posted) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList This is the location, but I highly doubt this is the reason for the problem that I'm having. On Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:48 am, Steve wrote: >What is a special users key in the registry [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop causes crash and reboot Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:15 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Don't be so sure about what it is and what it isn't until you've some evidence :-) An open mind is always the best route to finding a cure. I've never heard of that key being used in the way you describe though - it certainly isn't necessary and could be the cause. Anyway, what happens if you boot into Safe Mode ? BTW I once got the text off that fast blue screen using my digital camera ! That did help with the diagnosis. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop causes crash and reboot Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:03 pm Posted by Jake (20 messages posted) Well placing a DWORD with the chosen account does a number of things but one of the most important is to give the user the ability to turn the desktop on or off simply by changing it's value of either 1 or 0. I'm sure it would have booted to safe mode just fine but all I did was take what I wanted, saved it to the other desktop. Deleted the account from control panel and the registry and then I remade the account, restarted to see if the account would even log on, it did so, I did my registry tweaks and then rebooted again and this time it seems to be working just fine. But I'm telling you man this screen is FAST FAST and there isn't much text but I would LOVE to know what it says. On Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:15 am, MartinM wrote: > >Don't be so sure about what it is and what it isn't until you've some evidence :-) >An open mind is always the best route to finding a cure. > >I've never heard of that key being used in the way you describe though - it certainly >isn't necessary and could be the cause. > >Anyway, what happens if you boot into Safe Mode ? > >BTW I once got the text off that fast blue screen using my digital camera ! That >did help with the diagnosis. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop causes crash and reboot Friday, October 30, 2009 at 2:41 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Use a digital camera on a long exposure - it can be read that way, I've done it ! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum