10-09-2003 04:48									#1
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A couple of hours ago I rebooted my win xp home machine only to find that I could no longer log back in.

All I get is "The logon user interface dll msgina.dll failed to load. Contact your system administrator to replace the dll, or restore the original dll."

Now, i've not installed anything since the last successful boot, nor changed any settings or hardware... only been browsing.

I can log into safe mode, but not safe mode with networking. I dragged msgina.dll from the installation cd into the c:\windows\system32 folder overwriting the original, rebooted but still the same old story.

Luckily my old hard drive still has windows ME (blech) bootable so i've been searching google but only finding windows 2000 fixes, or... unnervingly a security vulnerability that affects networked computers which allows a user to block access to msgina.dll to stop people from logging in. The suggested fix for that was to set security permissions to deny user/administrator access, which I think I did, but still couldn't boot.

Since I can't log into safe mode with networking I thought maybe it was an outside denial of service attack... so I tried booting up normally but without my USB cable modem plugged in... still no joy

Oh, I also did a system restore back to four days ago, that didn't work either.

Edit: When I try safe mode with networking, what happens is I choose either my username or administrator account, then it says the normal "loading settings" but then pops straight back to login screen saying "saving settings" like i've just told it to log out.

I'm stuck with windows ME now, help me!

	10-09-2003 04:53									#2
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Sounds like reformat time to me.

	10-09-2003 04:55									#3
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Reinstall XP to replace any missing files...should sort it out...

	10-09-2003 04:59									#4
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I can figure those solutions out myself

No harm in hoping someone knows what the heck is going on O_o

	10-09-2003 05:02									#5
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Well who knows - these things happen from time to time

	10-09-2003 19:05									#6
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Bleh, noone will see this on page 3.....

Off to work soon, guess i'll have to reinstall when I get back

	10-09-2003 19:19									#7
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The file really is one of those for the logon... and I know of problems with programs that do, for some reason, want to replace this file .

Generally... reinstall seems the best solution here, as the Windoze repair console is clumsy. Besides, on a machine with decent speed, a simple reinstall shouldn't take any more than half an hour.

	10-09-2003 19:25									#8
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Yeah.. It just doesn't make sense though... i'm replacing the .dll straight from the cd... there shouldn't be anything wrong with it... and the other thing that confuses me is that Safe mode with networking doesn't let me log in but normal safe mode does...

Grr

	10-09-2003 20:31									#9
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Don't try to make sense out of Windows.

	10-09-2003 22:05									#10
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The uncivilized savages of the world seem to have an inexplicable aversion to Windows . . .