josephbanea

Hello, I need help fixing my computer. I'm sorry, but I am not very proficient in Windows; about all I know is how to access Safe Mode to make any changes. I ask that anyone who can help be very clear on their instructions on how to fix my computer problem. Thank you. I have a very serious problem that occurred after I patched my fresh SP3 installation with Uxtender 1.2. What happened was, when I rebooted my computer after the patch, my computer showed an error about winlogon.exe, and I can't seem to access anything. There is no GUI at all, no shell or theme, only my mouse. I see a window error that says this: SAS window: winlogon.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x5ad8a69d" referenced memory at "0x08ea1916". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on CANCEL to debug the program. After I exit out of the error window with either choice, I'm left with nothing but my mouse and a black screen. Then it reboots itself after some minutes later. Very weird. I cannot be sure what I should be doing right now. Before my computer screwed up, my computer logs on to the admin user automatically every time, so I don't have to encounter the user logon screen each startup. I saw in one of these posts that one of the users had a problem with logging on to a non-admin account, and he was able to fix it through changing the settings of the Users and Power Users section. I don't know if that will apply here, since I log on as admin. Heck I'm not too sure if I'm logging on at all. My first hunch would be that. My second idea would be to replace the uxtheme.dll with a new one, hopefully restoring my themes and allowing me to use my computer normally. Would that be a feasible idea, and would I need to block any backups, as done here? http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?showtopic=9001 I need to do this through Safe Mode, so I hope this will work. I've tried using "Last Known Good Configuration", but it did not seem to do anything. I got the same message. Thank you for taking your time to read this post, it is really long, I know. I hope you can find the answer to my problem. : ] Thanks again, joseph