Login process has failed to create the security options dialog

[Chris]

Running Vista Ultimate
The desktop goes blank, the mouse cursor is visible and movable but I cannot
right click and get any anything to happen. The keyboard does not produce
anything except an alt-ctrl-del which brings up a dialog
Titled:
Login process has failed to create the security options dialog
With a dialog message of:
Failure - Security Options

I have seen that others have had similar happen but have not seen any
solutions or causes posted.
Anyone here know how to deal with this?

TIA,
Chris

 

[Guest]

More than likely this happens because you have a non-Vista compatible
security suite installed. Have you installed some kind of
firewall/antivirus/whatever suite? If so, which?

 

[Chris]

I have Symantec Security Client installed.
I run the 64bit version at work and have not had any problems with it. The
problem machine is a 32bit.
If I get the thing to boot again I'll uninstall Symantec and see what
happens.
Thanks,
Chris

 

[Chris]

I have Symantec Security Client installed.
I run the 64bit version at work and have not had any problems with it. The
problem machine is a 32bit.
If I get the thing to boot again I'll uninstall Symantec and see what
happens.
Thanks,
Chris

I found the problem and it was not due to Symantec Antivirus.
I ran the Western Digital Diagnostics and it revealed that the S.M.A.R.T
data had errors in it..
I didn't look into exactly what the problem was but replaced the drive.
I haven't had a problem since and I've been using it for several weeks now.
The original problem was repeatable in several installations. For whatever
reason, the problem with the drive did not cause problems with Windows XP
but did cause problems with Vista.
A new C drive and life is good.

Chris

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

Phatkow wrote:

<snipped>

What kind of nonsense is that, that someone would tell you that the
restore aborted and that you needed a new HD.

The restore has aborted on me a couple of times and it told me that it
aborted. The restore was at the end, and it had finished the restore
when it aborted. I went and a looked at the state of things to make sure
things were back the way it was after the restore.

At best, all you had to do was format/flatten the HD and reinstalled the
O/S, which the pre-install of the O/S from the manufacture may not have
been a good install.

If the HD was going bad, then you would have started getting error
messages in some form that would have lead you to thinking that you had
a HD problem I would think.

 

[Vinicio]

I had the same situation...the technician "solved" the problem by suggesting
to send me a new HD and start anew. I run a diagnostics on the HD and found
that it was healthy. The Vista hanging problem I had was originated by a
conflict with other software. I unistalled all programs, including Office,
and installed them again to find the culprit. When I installed Outlook 2007,
the problems begun again. So I think I have the culprit.

 

[Guest]

The person you are talking too probably hasn't waited a year for you.