Hello-

I tried replacing authuii following your tutorial, but when saving the edited file there is an overwriting error. It is the type of message given when there is a permission issue(file in use) Ive tried with resource tuner and restorator 2007. I'm on Vistuh home premium 64 and I've taken ownership with full permit. I just finished replacing the start taskbar orb and I would like to try this one also.

Thank You,

Brian

Try these solutions:

1 Start Resource Tuner with administrative privileges by right clicking it and selecting Run as administrator.

2 Try copying authui.dll to another location and editing it there. Then copy it back.

To force copy, open a command prompt and type set copycmd=/y and hit enter. Then key in xcopy /h /r location of edited authui.dll c:\windows\system32 and press enter.

3 The third option is to try TuneUp which I found provides an option to automate the process.

Relocating the file worked, thanks for your time.
I also added a different wav to go with it; oddly enough, when I play the wav from imageres.dll in restorator it plays the windows sound, but when I restart I hear my sound effect. Works for me, thanks again.

Brian.

Hello, I'm still having problems with copying the file in the system32 folder. First it was saying sharing violation, now it says access denied.

This is another approach:

1 Open a command prompt window (as an administrator).

2 Type takeown /f c:\windows\system32\authui.dll and then enter cacls c:\windows\system32\authui.dll /g username:f to assume full control.

This means that the library has been compressed by a utility for security reasons. There are ways to unpack but I have never tried. You could first use sfc /scannow in a command prompt to possibly fix this.

The best approach would be to find out which utility (maybe an AV) did the packing and go from there.

Also I have attached mine which you could try. Type regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\authui.dll in a prompt after replacing if the system will not acknowledge it. See above if you need permissions when replacing or editing.

authui.zip

As a side note Resource Hacker could work better for you. The images are in hex format though so use Resource Tuner for guidance.

using vista home premium x64 with SP2 i did this exactly and it resulted in black screen before login (in fact at the moment of glowing orb, there was just a mouse cursor and black screen) and nothing happens (no HD work etc.). After some struggle with repair dvd and it's cmd (there were problems about admin rights, so i was unable to replace authui.dll) and sfc /fixnow nor chdsk worked, i had to reinstall vista...

now i am about to do this again, but with just one adjustment "restoration point".

I was just wondering, there are two authui.dll files in x64 systems, one in system32 and another in sysWOW64 folder. Will it work correctly if i change both according to the directions?
thanks Ian.