winlogon.exe

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everytime i boot up my computer, it says winlogon.exe is missing and I
have to contact the administrator.

how do i fix it? I cant get onto my desktop screen because winlogon,exe
is missing.

please help me!

thanks

surburban

 

[Tom Willett]

Have you tried booting to your XP installation CD and performing a repair?

 

[John John]

Try booting to the "Last Known Good Configuration". If it doesn't help
try replacing Winlogon.exe from the Recovery Console. Read here:

How To Replace a Driver by Using Recovery Console in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313670
(Same for Windows XP.)

If that doesn't help read here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156669

and if all else fails:

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/

John

 

[peterhill]

I had this problem where Winlogon.exe would generate an error and
wouldn't boot.
I didn't find much usenet help, but was able to fix it with info from
this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156669

It indicates "It is very common for certain types of remote control
software to replace the default Windows GINA DLL (Msgina.dll)."

Boot to safe mode, and locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

· If the Gina DLL value is present and is anything other than
Msgina.dll, this probably means that a third-party product has changed
this value.

I had a value redirecting Gina to a third-party dll (laptop encryption
software was responsible for mine) which I deleted. I rebooted and
everything came up fine.

I hadn't seen this solution posted by anyone else when I was
researching the problem, so I thought I would post it.