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"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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