Windows 7 RC not logging in

I am facing a different kinda problem, i cant login to my windows. I get the login screen, but when i give in my credentials it goes to the welcome screen and doesnt change at all, no matter how long i wait. I went into safeboot(luckily i could get into my desktop) and restored the pc onto an earlier restore time but no luck can anybody help???

I had this issue a while back, when logging in it would say 'Welcome' indefinitely, my issue was caused by a esata drive i switched on just after windows had booted, not before as i should have done. When logging in it caused the OS to freeze. Make sure you have no peripherals attached to the machine, just keyboard mouse and monitor. If that is a no go, and you've tried a restore point from safe mode, try an earlier restore point if you have one. Have you installed anything new recently? New drivers, hardware, software?

I had this issue also recently - discovered it was my dodgy webcam driver; I would get a BSOD, reboot and enter credentialls then long long pause on welcome screen.
I just rebooted into seafemode desktop - did nothing else at all, then shut down and reboot and all was well.
Safe to say that webcam has now bieen binned :)

Try having a look at event logs, see if anything crops up there...and as Xenova suggests too regarding peripherals...

yeah i did exactly the same, i booted into safemode, found a restore point 6 hrs earlier, and restored into it. voila now it works...thanks for your help guys!!!!

I am having the same problem. When i boot it says "please wait" for some 2 minutes, and when i select any user(and enter password) to login. It shows "Welcome" indefinitly.

I had this problem earlier, and i fixed it by restoring the system at a previous date. But i am having the same issue and this time system restore isnt repairing the problem.

I tried to repair the OS with by booting from CD. Repair "windows startup" didnt detect any problem.

Please tell me what i can do. I do not want to loose my softwares.. its a pain to reinstall all of them again.

Mr GRiM said:

You may want to give a Repair Install a go, that way you wont have to install all your software again.

Repair Install

Thanks for the quick reply! much apreciated. Im gna try the repair install right now. :)

Mr GRiM said:

You may want to give a Repair Install a go, that way you wont have to install all your software again.

Repair Install

I followed the Repair Install tutorial. on the first step it says :
1. Start Windows 7, and log on to an administrator account.

But thats my problem. I cannot log into windows 7. I get that indefinite "Welcome".

I tried to boot from cd and do it. But i do not get the options to do a Repair Install.

Please help.