YES! Someone is still using XP! ;)
We have an old computer in the office that is just really a spare, and it is running XP. There is an annoying problem. I am sure I tried to fix this years ago, but I failed - and I am quite sure it is due to a malware infection that has long since been removed. But one of the changes that the infection made was that it screwed up Fast User Switching in a way that makes it nigh impossible to easily correct. There is likely a simple registry edit that will fix this, but I cannot easily find it - and maybe someone here knows the secret.
If you open Control Panel | User Accounts | "Change the way users log on or off" the entire box is grayed out. There is even a warning message box that pops up and tells me that a specific rogue DLL is responsible for making this change! (Something like "GinaGL.dll"). But it does not tell me how to fix the problem!
If I search for *Gina* I find nothing - and again I believe the infection was removed years ago, so that is not unexpected. The computer does not appear to behave like it is infected at this point and I firmly believe that it is clean - I just cannot turn back on Fast User Switching!
There must be two registry edits that I need - one that eliminates the grayed out box described, and the other one that reactivates fast user switching! Anyone?? Thanks.
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OOooo... I finally found something that my be of help:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-desktop/unable-to-change-the-way-users-log-on-or-off-due/896d4cea-b945-41e1-b47d-9e5434210f71?auth=1
Or more specifically:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ginadll.htm
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