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RE: Userinit.exe - Application Error Win XP

Subject: RE: Userinit.exe - Application Error Win XP
From: DKP
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:04:01 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support


"Lucas" wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I would appreciate any help you can offer. I am running a laptop with XP 
> SP2. About a week ago I started noticing that occasionally my desktop would 
> clear out. That is no icons would be on the desktop, my start bar would 
> disapear and even using keyboard shortcuts I could not access any programs. 
> However, if I had a program running I could switch to it using Alt+Tab, etc. 
> I would have to restart the laptop to get my icons back. No error message 
> would present. 
> 
> Yesterday though, I had to restart the laptop like usual and now while the 
> Windows load screens come up (I don't get to the log in screen) an error 
> message presents and if I click OK I get no option to log in and I obviously 
> do not get any idcons, programs, etc. The only thing I can do is ALT+CTRL+DEL 
> and the task manager only shows a "user init applicaiton error" as running 
> but no systme processes are running. 
> 
> The error message I receive is: Userinit.exe - Application error: The 
> application failed to initialize proplerly (0xc0000005). 
> 
> I am looking for a way to fix this without having to wipe the hardrive (or 
> at least let me get the info off the hardrive before reinstalling etc)
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer. 
> 
> Lucas

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