Error in winlogon.exe whenever I press Win+L

From: Colin Cogle (master_NO_colin_SPAM_x_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/02/04


Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 04:45:14 -0400

Here's the error:

Title: "Winlogon generic control dialog: winlogon.exe - Application Error"
Message: "The instruction at "0x01035f81" referenced memory at
"0x00000006". The memory could not be "read"."

Then I can click OK to terminate, in which case Windows reboots, or
click on Cancel to debug, which is pretty worthless to me.

I have two software firewalls up (ICF on the ICS host and ZoneAlarm Pro
on this one) and Norton Antivirus 2003 checking new files. I think this
error began occuring after I ran a registry defragmentation tool, but I
don't see how the registry would cause program errors of this nature to
occur. The error happens whenever I press Win+L, but I can still work
in Windows by just moving the box out of the way.

But here's the funny thing: Every time this happens, the instruction
reference is always different, but the referenced memory range is always
0x00000006. And this isn't thrown in the system logs, either. I can
run Windows normally by just moving the window off-screen.

Did I miss an update somewhere? Should I just forget about it and run
System Restore, or is there some other way that lets me stay in the
present? Running System Restore would wipe out some of my ZoneAlarm
settings and new updates.



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