W7 logs on then off immediately on newly imaged machine (WDS)

[jonathon28]

Hi all,

 

Bit of a strange one, Have captured an image of a Windows 7 laptop and pushed out to others via WDS. Imaging completes and I create local account, set time zone etc, then I log on. Upon logging on (locally or domain) windows logs off after about 10 seconds. Tried logging in 6-8times and it still does the same. Any ideas? Tried restarting and same happens. Tried setup on another laptop and does the same.

[Michael]

Can you dial into the workstation via mmc and check the event logs? Can you login OK if you boot up in Safe Mode with Networking?

[themightymrp]

Could be either a corrupt profile or a dodgy registry key at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon. The userinit value should be C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe - I've seen it mess up before and cause the logging off issue. You should be able to fix this if you have network access to the machine

[jonathon28]

I checked registry key, userinit. There was a '.' at the end. Deleted this and its worked fine now. Strange how it got there! Thanks all!

[themightymrp]

Awesome