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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!
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!
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