Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)

I recently had viruses which I thought was cleaned up.
Everything was fine for about a day and now when I log in
with id and password, Windows starts to boot up and then
starts to boot down, where it asks me to login again.

I've tried booting in SAFE mode and the same thing happens

I don't have the boot disks because I bought it from a friend
who got it from work a long time ago.
I've had the computer for 3 yrs now and everything was fine until recently.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

Windows is already booted before you login. You mean that it starts to load the profile and then returns to the login prompt. Are you logging in as admistrator? Is there another account on the machine that you could try instead? The profile maybe corrupt.

yes, that is correct.
Windows is loaded and it starts to load my profile settings and then it logs me out and returns me to the login prompt.
I've login as administrator and as my daughter profile and both results are the same.

I only defined two accounts and have tried them both.

Is there a way to reset the profile accounts?

thanks

I was looking for a way to do that and I didn't see one. You could try to boot to a command prompt w/ networking (F8 and choose) The run
net user daughter stop
net user daughter start
I don't know if that will reset anything. It's a shot in the dark to tell you the truth.

i am experiencing the same problem, although in my case it's only occuring from time to time. and in fact i never made it to reconstruct the case where the automatic logout is being executed.

the computer is configured to restart every day at 6:30 am and normally the automatic login works fine. but from time to time this strange logout appears.

operating system is windows 2000 with sp4. if you guys come up with any working solution, please let me know. that would definitely make my day ;-)

thanks in advance,
andi

i mixed up something:
operating system is windows 2000 with sp2.

greetings,
andi