Windows Update has locked me out of XP Pro..Need Help

After downloading and installing automatic updates I was instructed to
reboot. After rebooting I cannot login on any of my 3 user accounts. I even
had one account without any password and now it is asking for one. The other
two accounts ask me if I have forgotten my password. After 2 trys I get a box
with this error:

Login Message

The system cannot log you on due to the following error:

The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect. Please try
again or contact your system administrator.

I do not believe SP2 was in these updates. I think I am on SP1. Any help
would be greatly appreciated! This was a perfectly working system before the
so called "Upgrade"

Thank You

Here is an update:

I was able to get back in by booting into safe mode and selecting last know
good configuration.

But I tried to update again with the same results? I had to boot back to
last known good configuration which removes the updates so I keep getting the
message that there are updates that need to be installed.

Thanks again for any help


"Ez" wrote:

> After downloading and installing automatic updates I was instructed to
> reboot. After rebooting I cannot login on any of my 3 user accounts. I even
> had one account without any password and now it is asking for one. The other
> two accounts ask me if I have forgotten my password. After 2 trys I get a box
> with this error:
>
> Login Message
>
> The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
>
> The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect. Please try
> again or contact your system administrator.
>
> I do not believe SP2 was in these updates. I think I am on SP1. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated! This was a perfectly working system before the
> so called "Upgrade"
>
> Thank You
>

"Ez" wrote:

> After downloading and installing automatic updates I was instructed to
> reboot. After rebooting I cannot login on any of my 3 user accounts. I even
> had one account without any password and now it is asking for one. The other
> two accounts ask me if I have forgotten my password. After 2 trys I get a box
> with this error:
>
> Login Message
>
> The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
>
> The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect. Please try
> again or contact your system administrator.
>
> I do not believe SP2 was in these updates. I think I am on SP1. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated! This was a perfectly working system before the
> so called "Upgrade"
>
> Thank You
>

I had the exact same problem. Thank you for your post as I thought I would
have to wipe the whole disk to get back into they system.

I still get the messages telling me to upgrade too, but I am not sure
whether this a legitimate upgrade. The error messages than came up when I
tried to enter a password were not standard microsoft - they said i had
entered the 'wrong parameters' and the entire screen went BLACK when the
error message came up. Is this some kind of virus/ false link?
Will this cause long term damage to my system.


"Ez" wrote:

> After downloading and installing automatic updates I was instructed to
> reboot. After rebooting I cannot login on any of my 3 user accounts. I even
> had one account without any password and now it is asking for one. The other
> two accounts ask me if I have forgotten my password. After 2 trys I get a box
> with this error:
>
> Login Message
>
> The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
>
> The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect. Please try
> again or contact your system administrator.
>
> I do not believe SP2 was in these updates. I think I am on SP1. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated! This was a perfectly working system before the
> so called "Upgrade"
>
> Thank You
>

Was a fix found for this? I am experiencing the exact same issue. The only
thing I can think of to try is to reinstall, again, and not install SP2.

"BlackKey05" wrote:

> I had the exact same problem. Thank you for your post as I thought I would
> have to wipe the whole disk to get back into they system.
>
> I still get the messages telling me to upgrade too, but I am not sure
> whether this a legitimate upgrade. The error messages than came up when I
> tried to enter a password were not standard microsoft - they said i had
> entered the 'wrong parameters' and the entire screen went BLACK when the
> error message came up. Is this some kind of virus/ false link?
> Will this cause long term damage to my system.
>
>
> "Ez" wrote:
>
> > After downloading and installing automatic updates I was instructed to
> > reboot. After rebooting I cannot login on any of my 3 user accounts. I even
> > had one account without any password and now it is asking for one. The other
> > two accounts ask me if I have forgotten my password. After 2 trys I get a box
> > with this error:
> >
> > Login Message
> >
> > The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
> >
> > The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect. Please try
> > again or contact your system administrator.
> >
> > I do not believe SP2 was in these updates. I think I am on SP1. Any help
> > would be greatly appreciated! This was a perfectly working system before the
> > so called "Upgrade"
> >
> > Thank You
> >