Interactive Logon Process Initialization has failed ?

[BDPCR]

Hello everyone this is my first time on this forum asking for some advice maybe someone can assist me. I have a dell Inspiron laptop that fails to boot into the user logon.I cannot proceed in regular mode or safe mode past this error message "Interactive Logon Process Initialization has failed". I removed the drive from the laptop and copied the Application.evtx for Event Viewer. Event viewer on another pc shows this:

SidebySide

"Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\system32\LogonUI.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls,language="*",processorArchitecture="*",publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df",type="win32",version="6.0.0.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis"

I booted a vista disk and copied the file logonui.exe from vista disk to the hard-drive system32 directory to replace the logonui.exe. However i still receive the same error, has anyone ran into this headache before? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Also ran a start up repair and found no issues.

 

[FoolishTech]

How about registry corruption or malware? I would check out the registry if you haven't already. First stop would be the HKLM\xxxSoftware\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, the uihost value which should contain logonui.exe... check the other usual spots, etc..

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

This is a corrupt profile, done about 20 of these.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-failure/f98c6986-4ce5-44fd-a9ef-99b9c1fa2e36

 

[BDPCR]

This is a corrupt profile, done about 20 of these.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-failure/f98c6986-4ce5-44fd-a9ef-99b9c1fa2e36

I have tried a start up repair as shown on the link provided,no issues are found. The machine will not proceed to individual user profile logons on safe mode or regular mode. If it was a corrupt user logon this would occur on a specific user account when i attempt to logon. I'm in the process of checking the registry now, i did not find any malware, that was a first step.

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

Sorry, must have posted the wrong link, I'm on my phone. This is a corrupt user profile, google corrupt user profile vista and you should see the fix. It basically involves changing a few settings in the registry for user sids and removing duplicates if they're present.

 

[BDPCR]

How about registry corruption or malware? I would check out the registry if you haven't already. First stop would be the HKLM\xxxSoftware\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, the uihost value which should contain logonui.exe... check the other usual spots, etc..

Windows vista does not have a "uihost" in that registry subkey like windows XP. I tried recreating user, ran chkdsk and replaced and renamed the logonUI.exe file, no luck yet.

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

Any idea if there was any indication of a SidebySide error for a manifest file? If so, try copying over a good one from a working vista machine. Apparently this is probably going to be your issue if changing the users in the registry didn't work. Haven't seen this issue but once so good luck!

 

[BDPCR]

First time i deal with this issue, if it was a manifest file i could simply replace it, this is the exact logfile from Event Viewer.

SideBySide

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\system32\LogonUI.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls,language="*",processorArchitecture="*",publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df",type="win32",version="6.0.0.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

 

[BDPCR]

Thanks for your input everyone after much fuss i just performed a repair install.