I down loaded the demo of Windows Vista, from the thread posted last week, and it's OK but seems a little unstable. The new black start bar at the bottom keeps reverting to white/grey (not even XP!!), and some of the new icons also revert to original. So I was looking for a skin set, or whatever I could find, to make a nice change on my PC.

To cut a long story short, I downloaded a program that can set it all up for me. I did this and was impressed with it, but found out I could change the Logon screen aswell, which I did a couple of times till I found a decent one. This morning I found another one that I thought would be perfect.... untill i came to turn the PC off................ it wont turn off, or go into standby, or into restart!!!!! I couldn't even delete or change the logon screen either. I had to press the main button to turn it off before I came to work today.

Can anyone shed any light on whats happened, and what I could do to rectify it? Please :bow: :bow: I don't want to have to re-boot everything.

If you're running XP you could always use the System Restore option

This is what happens when you install Beta software mate.

 

If its your normal windows, you could try a repair installation.

Dave,

 

It appears you have replaced the GINA with a non-standard one. If this were XP or 2k there might be a chance of recovering. I have a version of Vista running, but do not know enough about it to start recovering shite-d installs.

 

i'll see what I can find.

 

Phil.

This might help mate, follow the settings on this page and you will be fine!

Dave,

 

It appears you have replaced the GINA with a non-standard one. If this were XP or 2k there might be a chance of recovering. I have a version of Vista running, but do not know enough about it to start recovering shite-d installs.

 

i'll see what I can find.

 

Phil.

It is XP, but with the Vista skin. I'll give the recovery a try first.

 

Thanks for the replies.