winlogon.exe hell

[Rob Karatzas]

Hi All

I had a post from 12/26/03 & 2/1/4, but I didn't get anything usable:

1. On boot, I get a pop-up trying to log into any account (Administrator or
personal account):

"SAS Window: winlogon.exe - Application Error"
"The instruction at "0x75a90d5f" referenced memory at "0x0000000d". The
memory could not be "read"".

OK to terminate (reboots and back to #1)
CANCEL to debug (sits there forever)

realize it's probably an application issue (only things I can think of in
startup are Norton SystemWorks/Pro 2003 and APC power management software
(v6 from what I remember). Is probably not the APC software, I renamed the
..exe AND pushed another good copy onto this PC.

2. I can access drive remotely and competely -WinXP Pro all SPs and Critical
Updates through 12/25 applied
(was a stable PC for more than a year).

3. permissions denied to anything administratively from other win servers.

4. scanned 10+ times from several other 2000 & 2003 server versions of
Norton for viruses, NO ISSUES.

5. know about this utility which removes the Registry entries for
Winlogon.exe
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_winlogin_remove.htm , BUT no one can
tell me how do I run
it on the Win XP Pro PC that I can't get logged to? Tried a WSH script
remotely to execute this utility on XP Pro PC, but the GetObject on the call
fails, don't seem to be able to conf.exe into the PC remotely as well....

6. Everything so far is a dead-end. Saved the original drive from the Linux
SuSE boys, in hopes that I can get my PC back someday (had to go out and buy
a second drive).

7. "Microsoft Online Assisted Support" won't fly... If I can't log into the
PC, how can I get the product ID (and there's NO option in their format for
entering my Product KEY).

Thanks Rob

Rob Karatzas
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H (734) 475-0163
C (734) 604-0039

 

[Guest]

Rob,

If you cannot logon,
- boot into safe mode

Either way, you will have to logon using a different account.
- delete the username from the user accounts list
- re-create that username
- then login as that user, the problem should go away.
- this usually has to do with a corrupt user profile.

Lemme know if this works,
Artemis

 

[Rob Karatzas]

hi Artemis

no luck, blows up the same on the login for both accounts Administrator &
UserAccount (in SafeMode)....

one thing I forgot about is that I have the UNALTERED original 3.5GB drive
that the system was created with (has both of the original accounts).

I Maxtor "ghosted" the ORIGINAL 3.5GB drive to an 80GB drive that the system
was using for over a year now.

do you know if there's anyway to boot from the ORIGINAL drive and copy
profile information to the 80GB drive?

(I appreciate it. This really sucks... So does SuSE Linux, but this is
worse...)

rob
(e-mail address removed)