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I broke the logon screen (tried to replace the system file.)
I hope this is the right category for this thread, apologies in advance if it's not.
So I was trying to replace the logon screen's system file, "authui.dll" with a custom file, I broke my computer's logon screen in the process. There's just a blank screen with a cursor in place of the logon screen, so I can't log into the computer to do a system restore. I can't even log into safe mode.
Maybe when I saw the lock icon on the system file I shouldn't have attempted to switch users just to test it.
A clean install is not an option (Unless I can access all my files from another computer and save them to an external drive frist.), I have all my important files on this computer. I should've thought about this more thoroughly.
I don't have a windows 7 disk for system repair, could I do it with a USB stick? (And would my files be safe?)
I'm not sure what I should do here.
Thanks!