[Help] - Windows Logon Box Grayed out

[touchstone_81]

Hi all,

i have had a weird problem and would really appreciate any help on this issue . We have about 20 workstations in a domain; in one of the workstations when I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, the logon box appears, but the username and password boxes are greyed out. I cannot type anything at all.

If I remote desktop in and reboot, I can login locally as well as to the domain. After a few days, back to grey. There is no VNC , dameware or anything of that sort .No freeware .checked the machine for spyware and viruses ,seems clean . But just can't figure out why the logon would be blocked . Also when this happened i tried to connect to the computer managemnent console of the affected workstaion from a DC ;the interesting thing was the " local users and groups" would not be displayed ,it had a Red X mark on it .Dont know if that is related or not but thought would post it in case someone could make sense of all this.

Thanks in advance

Cheers

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