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Done the blind log in a number of times, nothing happens.
Yes I can get to recovery, repair cant fix, restores are not available (were there are many). Command prompt works and have run some commands but no fix.
Done the blind log in a number of times, nothing happens.
Yes I can get to recovery, repair cant fix, restores are not available (were there are many). Command prompt works and have run some commands but no fix.
Perhaps try to set auto login from within Windows 10? You should be able to load the HKLM hive and change the registry of Win7.
Option 2 of Log On Automatically at Startup
Also check (while reg is already loaded)
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsot\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon to make sure 'shell = explorer.exe'
Good idea but no access to RUN or anything else.
Do you know of any utility that can read and modify a windows registry? If there was one I could run it in 10 and load up 7's reg.
In Windows 10 run: regedit
Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and menu "File" - Load Hive
For HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE - browse to Win7 partition - Windows\system32\config\software
Give any name you want for the loaded hive.
Check explorer.exe key and set auto login. Close regedit and restart in Win7.
I would also check Run and RunOnce sections for HKLM (Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion), and delete anything that doesn't look familiar after a Google search. (This would best help in case of an infection though) Of course take note of what you have deleted, screenshot or copy paste to a text file etc.
Just in the middle of Regedit as you propose. I have it open and am wondering now that I have loaded my old Win 7 reg into Local Machine, now I have a new hive called "Win 7 local Machine under my win 10's Local Machine hive. So do I delete this key before I close regedit or what - I am concerned if I close Regedit before deleting the win 7 hive it may mess up my win 10??
Please instruct what to do after I have made my changes to the old registry.
Thanks,
No, just close regedit if there is no unload hive in the menu.
OK, I have made no changes, Shell has the correct setting i.e. Explorer.exe, so no change there. Anything else?
I was trying something else earlier. boot in to repair of Win 7, command prompt to try to set the user Sean full admin rights:
cacls I:\Users\Sean /E /T /C /G Sean:F
But I am getting this error: no mapping between account names and security ids
I am guessing this should give admin rights to Sean, which i am thinking maybe hasnt got anything although it should.
Check these too:
Also:I would also check Run and RunOnce sections for HKLM
(Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion), and delete anything that doesn't
look familiar after a Google search. (This would best help in case of an
infection though) Of course take note of what you have deleted, screenshot or
copy paste to a text file etc.
Option 2 of Log On Automatically at Startup
The cacls command may be failing if you have renamed the account sometime in the past.
Run, has nothing unusual.
RunOnce, has no entry
- so made no changes to the file.
Had a look at auto login but the auto login key wasnt present in the key and I didnt want to create it. On my win 7 I didnt have a password to get in, that could be left blank I guess, wanted domain to log in, blank... so I didnt create any.
But it is good to know I can open win 7' registry which is good to know, learnt something.
I was hoping I could give admin rights to Sean (user folder) to maybe force it to remember the user, I am still convinced it is to do with windows booting but once in User folder, cannot find a valid user to log in to - when I originally caused the problem by changing User permission by allowing 10 to change the permission to grant me access to explore the files. I suppose if I could create a new user, then maybe win 7 would log in then I could deal with other profiles locally.
Thanks for your help anyway...