I eventually found a real solution on how to edit Windows registry key values without booting into Windows. In the end I managed to fix the problem but couldn’t exactly remember how I did it because I tried many many ways and I got lucky. Autoruns is much smarter now because when you uncheck userinit.exe from Logon, it will warn you that “disabling or deleting Userinit will prevent users from logging on”. I had a really tough time trying to restore userinit.exe back to the Windows startup list as it wasn’t easy accessing and editing the registry when Windows is unbootable. ![]() Whenever I select the user from the list, it logged in and automatic logged off. ![]() ![]() When I restarted the computer, I was unable to login to Windows. Many years ago when I was still a novice in computers, I accidentally disabled userinit.exe from startup thinking that it was spyware using the SysInternals tool Autoruns.
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