Opening other desktop on my mac

I recently purchased a new Imac and tranferred everything from time machine to it. But now when my wife goes to open her desktop it will let her log in and then after 20 seconds or so kicks her out.
Anyone know what to do?

As a first step I would log in to another account that has admin privileges, open System Preferences and go to the Users & Groups tab.
Then select your wife's account and open the Login Items tab for her account and disable everything. Then have her log in. If one of the login items was having an error its possible that she could be logged out. If that works you can try adding them back in one at a time to see which one is causing the problem.
You could also open up the Console window (/Applications/Utilities/Console) and look at the log files. See if you can see anything from around the time she is trying to log in. Post back any results.
good luck

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VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
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