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Situation:
Scheduled ntbackup job could not start with Last Result 0×0
Troubleshooting:
1. Check the Properties of Scheduled Task. It is Runas administrator with correct password.
2. Check the, “wake up my computer to run” box. Could your computer could be sleeping when the job starts?
3. Check the Scheduled Tasks Log. (c:\Windows\Schedlgu.txt )
4. Check the Task Scheduler Service
We recently had a computer that kept producing pop-ups while we were using our custom virus scanners in Safe Mode w/Command Prompt. Generally, most viruses are disabled when you’re in safe mode w/command prompt but this one was infecting userinit.exe which is called upon by winlogon.exe every time you log on to a machine. Before we scan machines we have to disable whatever virus is being loaded so that we can scan in a “clean” environment, else you’ll scan for months and never find the specific virus that is plaguing you.
This particular machine required us to take the hard drive out and hook it up to a linux box. On the linux box we mounted the drive, and ran avast linux edition on it. It found the pesky virus and removed it. What was the culprit’s name you may ask? Seneka rootkit / trojan is it’s name…
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Windows Log on and Log off immediately.
SYMPTOMS
You may face this problem when logging on to Windows. When you type user name and password you are again presented with User name and Password dialogue box. You try hard to get in but to no avail. You may not be able to log on to system using either Normal Mode or Safe Mode.
CAUSE
This occurs when Winlogon service tries to load the Windows default shell (explorer.exe) and/or user shell (userinit.exe) from the locations specified in the registry, IF the file(s) is/are not found at the specified location(s). This service searches for the last known locations for Explorer.exe and Userinit.exe in the following path of registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
Cause Scenarios:
1. You once booted from c: and installed your OS on f:, and now you’ve removed the c: drive from your system and made f: the bootable drive.
2. You deleted the explorer.exe and/or userinit.exe file(s)
3. Corrupted registry.
4. Hell I could keep going for months on possible causes…
RESOLUTION
Edit these values and type the correct path of shell & userinit OR restore the files if they have been removed:
Shell = explorer.exe
Userinit=c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe
To fix this:
You have to find a way to edit the registry either offline or through the network to see if the registry has the wrong location of these files.
Often times however, the files have been deleted by spyware or accident. The easiest way to recover the files is to boot from a windows install cd, load the recovery console, browse to windows\system32\dllcache and copy the userinit.exe and/or explorer.exe to the windows\system32 directory. If they are not found in the dllcache directory, you may have to copy them to cd from another machine, then copy them to the system32 directory. Otherwise you’ll have to expand them from the i386 directory on the install cd.
APPLIES TO
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
I’m just tired of spammers and hackers attacking my sites while I sleep at night. I’ve decided to block all IPs coming from RU or SK. And I used a website to generate apache deny lists, then I put them in my .htaccess file. Goodbye bad IPs!
http://ip.ludost.net/ <- the site I used.
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb fails with…
fuse: mount failed: Invalid argument
Reinstalling fuse-utils fixed it…
sudo apt-get remove fuse-utils
sudo apt-get install fuse-utils
We had a computer come in that wouldn’t let you open the start menu by clicking on start because you couldn’t see the start button. Furthermore, pressing the windows logo key on the keyboard didn’t open the start menu either. You could go into the properties of the task bar and select, lock, auto-hide, etc., but they made no difference. Also, IE wouldn’t stay open. That is, it would open and close all in one step.
We were told that the user may have deleted something when trying to remove a game. So, we ran a repair install and the problem was fixed.
One thing to note: Before running a repair install, we tried using Dial-a-fix on the computer. In safe mode, dial-a-fix made the taskbar and start menu work, but after a restart we were back to square one.
Believe it or not, I strapped in 512mb of PC133, cleaned the CPU, PS, & Case fans and this baby is off and running perfectly normal…
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If your computer hangs at loading personal settings check the following:
1. Shortcuts to network drives / mappings that are not available.
Some times windows will try to connect to the network drive when you start up, and/or when you are browsing to a file using an open/run dialog box. If the share / network path isn’t available windows may wait for it to time out before it allows you to browse the network or log on.
2. Old printers that are no longer connected or used.
This may be a hunch but I’ve seen computers slow down drastically while looking for 30 printers that were never un-installed or installed with errors.
3. Malware, Viruses, Etc.
The last computer I ran into that was “slow starting up” was a combo of things. It had all of the above, plus vongo a malware that disguises itself as smiley faces for your emails, etc… Removing the shortcuts to network drives made it load personal settings much faster, but then windows took a long time to load startup programs. I had to use ezpcfix to find the registry entries for shortcuts to vongo.lnk (links) and remove them. After that, loading personal settings and startup programs was as fast as expected to be.
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