I had this problem a while ago and this fixed it for me.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/acti...b;en-us;307545
Basically, boot to dos prompt (or recovery console if available) and make backups of the following files:-
c:\windows\system32\config\system (to c:\windows\tmp\system.bak)
c:\windows\system32\config\software (to c:\windows\tmp\software.bak)
c:\windows\system32\config\sam (to c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak)
c:\windows\system32\config\security (to c:\windows\tmp\security.bak)
c:\windows\system32\config\default (to c:\windows\tmp\default.bak)
then delete the above files (not the backups!)
then copy the above files in c:\windows\repair to the c:\windows\system32\config directory
This is assuming that windows is installed into c:\windows, so adjust as required!
restart your computer
That worked for me without having to play around with the registry.
Hope it works for you, let me know.
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