winlogon.exe error

Uninstall your antivirus, as it's the most likely cause. Could be other 3rd party software as well.

Hey, I use the Microsoft Security Essentials.. so I don't know if this program is causing winlogon.exe error...

thanks for the reply...

torrentg said:

Uninstall your antivirus, as it's the most likely cause. Could be other 3rd party software as well.

In that case, probably not MSE. But definitely something starting with the pc.

Post a screenshot of when you go to start menu and type msconfig, hit enter.

Go to startup tab and that's what we need to see to make suggestions. Could actually be a service too but let's have a look at this first.

You can use the paperclip to attach the screenshot to a post.

Hey, I have tried disabling all of the startup programs, but this issue still persists...

I read some suggestions for decreasing the startup time and this was one of the option .. I have also tried doing this in safe mode as well..

Is it possible that the winlogon.exe file is corrupted? ... as the error I get when I shutdown actually says winlogon.exe still needs to close...

It could be that Syncplicity causing it, especially because the maker is coming up as unknown in the screenshot. Uninstall that to test, if you'd like.

No, probably not corrupted because Windows wouldn't work at all then.

Hey, I have uninstalled that program, but I still get that winlogon.exe needs to close error during shutdown...and I still get that black screen (10sec delay) after login..

to provide more info.... when I press shutdown... the screen goes black and then flickers and then comes up with this error "1 program still needs to close" and this error stays for about 2 sec. and before I can click force shutdown or cancel.. the error disappears and windows shuts down normally....

That's basically normal for Windows to do that, depending on what is currenly running when you shut down. I wouldn't worry about it then. It's only 2 sec.