Vista Security Failure and freeze

[supatanka]

hey

my brother has moved away as he is in airforce, and he has started to get problems with his lappy... it has been fine for last few months but he now is startin to have touble, he says he can turn it on and is fine for about 10 mins and then it will freeze up, however he said also he was getting a security failure to load message? sorry i dont know better details or exact message as bro is in Norfolk and im in merseyside,


i have been quite lucky and all my vista lappys have been fine.. :S

any suggestions at all be great and much appreciated


Already run norton..nothing turned up..i think it will be a registry roblem..and have old him to try and download crap cleaner if he can?

[Pegasus]

however he said also he was getting a security failure to load message? sorry i dont know better details or exact message as bro is in Norfolk and im in merseyside,

My powers of ESP are drained to zero right now, but if your bro wants to resort to ancient methods of communication (like the telephone) and let you know what the exact problem is.....somebody will no doubt have the solution.

[supatanka]

system goes extremely slow and erratic and I get the spinning circle that Vista has as its hourglass and all applications showing up with "(Not Responding)" in their title bars. While it is in this state, I naturally want to see what process is eating up the CPU (though the CPU gadget shows nothing amazing). However, when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del, all I get after a delay is a black screen and a dialogue box saying:

Login process has failed to create the security options dialog.

Failure - security options.

[OK]

Clicking OK leaves me with a black screen for a long time and I get returned to the frozen applications. I then have to reboot by holding down the reset for a few seconds (because gets its knickers in a twist resetting the soft way).