Hi. Ok so last night I was looking for a solution to get rid of the iexplore.exe process. It was taking up 100k ram and was lagging my pc so I thought it must have been a virus. As you may know if you try to end the prcoess it just keeps re opening.
So I went looking on google for a solution and I came to another forum. This guy had the exact same problem I had and someone posted the solution.
It all seemed quite technical so I thought the guy knew what he was up to.

It said I was to first of all go into safe mode.
I was then to Browse in my registry to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\Currentersion\Winlogon

And then delete the the value : "Userinit"="userinit32.exe"

After that I stopped because I realised I didnt make any form of backup, then I find I can't log in. I get to the log in screen, I log in, then it logs me out. So it's now impossible to log in. I try to log in on safe made as the adminstrator but it does the same.
I then try to run the Pc built in system recovery from the boot screen but I get an error saying something like windows cannot continue this file ( cant remember it ) is either corrupt, unreadable, or missing.

So I have no way to log into my pc and no way to restore it.
I have lost my Windows XP disc which I believe would fix this.

Can anyone help me out? If I can't do anything do you think if I was to buy Windows XP off ebay I would be able to restore my pc?
Thanks.

What is the make and model of the computer?

Was the XP disk that you lost supplied by the computer manufacturer?

If so you might be able to get a replacement for it from them.

If you were to purchase a new full version XP CD then you could install XP from scratch assuming that you can find the necessary drivers for your motherboard.