windows xp login

[ryan]

I have finally gotten the "blaster off my computer with
Norton's help and the latest patches for Windows. Now
everytime I start my computer, I get a message that
says "cannot find winlogin.exe". Should be an easy fix,
but I can't figure it out.

[Patrick]

ryan wrote:
> I have finally gotten the "blaster off my computer with
> Norton's help and the latest patches for Windows. Now
> everytime I start my computer, I get a message that
> says "cannot find winlogin.exe". Should be an easy fix,
> but I can't figure it out.

As far as my understanging goes,

'winlogin.exe' is a *bogey*,

'winlogon.exe' is valid Windows-file.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Look in the right pane for a value called Shell. The value should read
Explorer.exe Yours probably reads something like:

Explorer.exe winlogin.exe

If so, double click the Shell value and make it read Explorer.exe

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"ryan" > wrote in message
...
> I have finally gotten the "blaster off my computer with
> Norton's help and the latest patches for Windows. Now
> everytime I start my computer, I get a message that
> says "cannot find winlogin.exe". Should be an easy fix,
> but I can't figure it out.