What happen to my computer?

Question

When i turn on my comp i click on start on the bottom left but after i do this this shows up userinit.exe Application The application failed to initialize properly (oxcoooooo5)click on ok to terminate the application.All my icons are gone only the background screensaver remains.This is the only thing that shows up across my computer what is wrong with it ? I have to go to the library to use the comp i want to use my own!! Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

try going here

http://www.updatexp.com/0xC0000005.html

Answer 2

There are a few things you can try:

1. Try simply going to start/all programs/accessories/system tools/system restore, and follow the instructions to restore your pc to an earlier state.

2.Download Windows Care Professional from Download.com(if possible), and run full diagnostics.

3.Go to start/run, then type msconfig, then click okay.  A box with open with several options.   Click on the tab labeled services.  Toward the bottom, check the box that says hide all microsoft services, then click disable all, then apply, and restart your pc.

If these options do not work, update your question with information regarding the consequences of each step you took.

Good Luck--j

Not to discredit the above answerers, but the answers above will not resolve the problem, but rather cover it up, with the exception of all the links provided to download expensive programs to fix something you are able to do yourself...with a little help, of course.

Answer 3

CAUSE

This problem occurs if an older version of Userinit.exe, from Windows NT 3.51, is still located on the hard disk drive. The current version of the Userinit.exe file is located in the Winntroot\System32 directory.

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RESOLUTION

The following steps will correct this problem. 1. After you log on to Windows NT, press CTRL+ALT+DEL.  

2. Click the Task Manager.  

3. Under the Applications Tab, click New Task.  

4. Type Explorer.exe, and then click OK.  

5. After Explorer is running, do a search on the hard disk drive for all instances of Userinit.exe.  

6. Delete all instances of Userinit.exe except for the file located in the Winntroot\System32 directory.

Answer 4

Assuming you have the Windows installation CD, boot from it and tell it to repair your Windows installation. This covers you in a whole range of Windows problems - regardless of the exact cause.

If you don't have the Windows installation CD for your computer (not someone else's - which is illegal to use), you can always use Linux, free from http://GetPCLinuxOS.com/KDE/. Burn the ISO image to a CD and boot right into Linux.

Use this program to burn your downloaded ISO image from Windows:

ImgBurn [CD/DVD checking and ISO burning]:

http://imgburn.com

Likely your problem is actually caused by Malware - rather than several other rare coincidences - so after repair it may soon come back. What to do?

If you have 4 FREE applications installed and up to date, and scan with SpyBot and AVG regularly, you may be able to operate Windows and not have strange behaviors plus spew out SPAM from the spam-bot owning 90%+ of home Windows computers. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/67... or similar for proof of this perhaps startling statement.

Here are the 4 you'll be successful with - remember, they're FREE:

SpyBot [Malware removal, Registry monitoring]:

http://www.spybot.com/en/mirrors/index.h...

SpywareBlaster [Malware payload "Click-attack" prevention]:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareb...

AVG Free [classic virus checker - but don't use its spyware tool]:

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

ZoneAlarm (Free version) by SoftPoint [interactive trainable firewall]:

http://www.soft82.com/download/windows/z...

Again, I recommend the 4 programs above because they may prevent recurrence of your problem, they have significantly lower CPU and RAM overhead compared to alternatives, they work as good as anything you can buy - and they are FREE as in zero cost!

Good luck.

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PS - SURELY you're using XP and not a machine converted from Windows NT as one answerer assumes? IF you are - though that answerer is generally correct IIRC about NT - you should still try REPAIR from the source CD or floppies (!) before doing such manual steps. That really takes me back!