by theta_wave » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:11 pm
After the latest Microsoft updates landed on my Win7 install, I rebooted per instructions; the Win7 session that had installed the updates also installed MMW 1813. Windows rebooted and I landed on my login screen and proceeded to log into my non-Admin user account (the one I mainly use). The login screen got stuck on the Welcome screen permanently, so I had to do a hard shutdown. With my non-Admin user account, there are a few other things that autostart there and not in the Admin account I rarely use. System-wide, the main programs that autostart are Windows Anti-Virus, Malwarebytes and Sandboxie. Anyways, every time I tried logging into my non-Admin account, the OS won't continue any further besides the Welcome screen.
For the barebones Admin account, I managed to log into that and immediately noticed that Mediamonkey autostarted along with the three aforementioned programs. I checked msconfig and regedit (Run and RunOnce) and didn't notice mediamonkey.exe there. Anyways, after logging out of Admin, I tried logging back into it and couldn't proceed any further than the Welcome screen--hard shutdown and reboot again. On the next boot, I managed to get into the Admin account and proceeded to uninstall Mediamonkey. Logged off and, lo and behold, managed to log back into my Admin account. Also, I was finally able to log to my main non-Admin account.
After the latest Microsoft updates landed on my Win7 install, I rebooted per instructions; the Win7 session that had installed the updates also installed MMW 1813. Windows rebooted and I landed on my login screen and proceeded to log into my non-Admin user account (the one I mainly use). The login screen got stuck on the Welcome screen permanently, so I had to do a hard shutdown. With my non-Admin user account, there are a few other things that autostart there and not in the Admin account I rarely use. System-wide, the main programs that autostart are Windows Anti-Virus, Malwarebytes and Sandboxie. Anyways, every time I tried logging into my non-Admin account, the OS won't continue any further besides the Welcome screen.
For the barebones Admin account, I managed to log into that and immediately noticed that Mediamonkey autostarted along with the three aforementioned programs. I checked msconfig and regedit (Run and RunOnce) and didn't notice mediamonkey.exe there. Anyways, after logging out of Admin, I tried logging back into it and couldn't proceed any further than the Welcome screen--hard shutdown and reboot again. On the next boot, I managed to get into the Admin account and proceeded to uninstall Mediamonkey. Logged off and, lo and behold, managed to log back into my Admin account. Also, I was finally able to log to my main non-Admin account.