PROBLEM STARTING WINDOWS XP

[abhishekrishna]

Dear all,

I have a computer with XP SP3 installed on it. Recently i changed
the logon screen using Star dock softwares(winlogon) & i deleted that
winlogon.exe file willing to go back to the default windows logon
screen.
But the windows is not showing me the user logon screen
rather it starts rebooting . What is the solution for this?

Thanks ,
Abhishek

 

[John John - MVP]

Did you try the different F8 boot options? Press the F8 key before
Windows starts to boot and see if you can boot with one of the other
options.

Otherwise boot with the Recovery Console or a Bart PE disk, or mount the
disk in USB enclosure and copy the file back to where it should be.

John

 

[abhishekrishna]

Did you try the different F8 boot options?  Press the F8 key before
Windows starts to boot and see if you can boot with one of the other
options.

Otherwise boot with the Recovery Console or a Bart PE disk, or mount the
disk in USB enclosure and copy the file back to where it should be.

John

Is it possible to download that winlogon.exe file and paste it into
system32 to set this problem right.

 

[abhishekrishna]

Did you try the different F8 boot options?  Press the F8 key before
Windows starts to boot and see if you can boot with one of the other
options.

Otherwise boot with the Recovery Console or a Bart PE disk, or mount the
disk in USB enclosure and copy the file back to where it should be.

John

I tried F8 feature but did not work. Just starts rebooting before the
user logon screen appears. I did'nt get the method u specified.

 

[Jose]

I tried F8 feature but did not work. Just starts rebooting before the
user logon screen appears. I did'nt get the method u specified.

If winlogon.exe is comletely missing, you will not be booting in any
mode. You will get a STOP error and that will be that until you fix
it.

If winlogon.exe was replaced by Stardock (I am not sure but I think
that is what it does), the easiest way to replace the winlogon.exe
would be from the copy that is in the dllcache folder on your system
that Stardock hopefully did not touch.

I am not installing Stardock to find out! Replacing winlogon.exe is
easy.

To do that the most efficient way, you need to boot into the Recovery
Console using your XP installation CD or if you do not have one just
create a Bootable Recovery console CD and copy the file using that.

You do not need to repair or reinstall anything just to replace the
winlogon.exe file in case that idea comes up.

Recovery Console is the most efficient way to replace the winlogon.exe
file with what XP thinks is the correct version.

Why do you think the problem is with winlogon.exe in the first place?

If you do not have an XP installation CD, you will not be making any
BartPE CDs nor would you need to if you had a bootable XP installation
CD. You can however create a bootable Recovery Console CD, and this
may come in handy some other day, so it is nice to have.

Do you have a bootable XP installation CD to boot Recovery Console or
do you need to make a bootable Recovery Console CD?

 

[John John - MVP]

Is it possible to download that winlogon.exe file and paste it into
system32 to set this problem right.

Expand it from your Windows XP cd or copy it from another Windows XP
machine.

John

 

[Bernd]

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If winlogon.exe was replaced by Stardock (I am not sure but I think
that is what it does), the easiest way to replace the winlogon.exe
would be from the copy that is in the dllcache folder on your system
that Stardock hopefully did not touch.

You will not find winlogon.exe in dllcache but in
WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386

Bernd