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When booting a laptop running windows 2000 prof..
get following error
The login user interface DLL csw.Gina.dll failed to load.
Can only boot in safe mode and cannot find this dll anywhere to replace.
Please advise
by dklippert
The file s/b MSGINA.DLL. Here are a couple of suggestions. It's used to login.
(Type the Q number in the search box at www.microsoft.com/technet)
Winlogon May Fail if the Third-Party Gina.dll File is Missing
Q164486
Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\WinLogon.
In the right pane, remove the entry for Gina.DLL.
by ahendric
by joseph moore
Are you running a Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Adapter in this machine? If so, then the following instructions from Cisco should help:
Step 1 - Use a bootable floppy disk to reboot Windows.
Step 2 - Open the Windows system folder, usuallyC:\Winnt\system32.
Step 3 - Locate the file cswgina.dll in the system folder.
Step 4 - Copy the original cswgina.dll file (in the system folder) to cswgina.sav
Step 5 - Copy the msgina.dll file (in the system folder) to cswgina.dll
Step 6- Reboot the PC and logon to Windows.
Step 7 - Reinstall the Cisco Aironet client drivers.
Step 8 - Use a bootable floppy disk to reboot Windows.
Step 9 - Copy the cswgina.sav file to cswgina.dll and put it in back in the system folder.
Step 10 - Reboot the PC.Step 11 - If Windows freezes again, repeat Step 1 through Step 6 and immediately start the ACU and disableLEAP.
by joseph moore
Now, I have something to dispute on these instructions. Since you have Win2K, you should use the Recovery Console instead of a bootable floppy as in Step 1 & Step 8. Recovery Console will let you do all of the file renaming and replacing that these instructions suggest.
Also, you can find MSGINA.DLL in the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE folder; that is where a backup copy will be that you can use in Step 5.
hope this helps
by ahendric
by ahendric
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