Hello,
I'm running Win XP with all the latest updates. For several months, everything has been fine. Today, however, Windows started taking an extremely long time to "applying personal settings" when logging in either under Administrator or my personal account. After 45 min, I gave up waiting and booted into safe mode (no problem), ran chkdsk /f on c:, and it found and repaired several errors. However, when I now try to log into my personal account (with administrator privilages), I get the following message:
"A problem is preventing Windows from validating the license for this computer. Error 0x80040001"
Logging in under Administrator now still makes the computer idle seemingly forever under "applying personal settings." Logging into my personal account gives me the above error, then tries to log me out.
I can boot into safe mode in either account no problem, and all my files seem to be intact. The only thing is that it takes several seconds longer than normal to display the contents of a directory when selected.
Under safe mode, I tried going back to a few restore points. None made any difference.
Any suggestions on how to recover this other than reformatting and re-installing Windows?
Thanks!
I'm running Win XP with all the latest updates. For several months, everything has been fine. Today, however, Windows started taking an extremely long time to "applying personal settings" when logging in either under Administrator or my personal account. After 45 min, I gave up waiting and booted into safe mode (no problem), ran chkdsk /f on c:, and it found and repaired several errors. However, when I now try to log into my personal account (with administrator privilages), I get the following message:
"A problem is preventing Windows from validating the license for this computer. Error 0x80040001"
Logging in under Administrator now still makes the computer idle seemingly forever under "applying personal settings." Logging into my personal account gives me the above error, then tries to log me out.
I can boot into safe mode in either account no problem, and all my files seem to be intact. The only thing is that it takes several seconds longer than normal to display the contents of a directory when selected.
Under safe mode, I tried going back to a few restore points. None made any difference.
Any suggestions on how to recover this other than reformatting and re-installing Windows?
Thanks!