Vista - Login process has failed to create the security options dialog

Running Vista Ultimate
The desktop goes blank, the mouse cursor is visible and movable but I cannot
right click and get any anything to happen. The keyboard does not produce
anything except an alt-ctrl-del which brings up a dialog
Titled:
Login process has failed to create the security options dialog
With a dialog message of:
Failure - Security Options

I have seen that others have had similar happen but have not seen any
solutions or causes posted.
Anyone here know how to deal with this?

TIA,
Chris

More than likely this happens because you have a non-Vista compatible
security suite installed. Have you installed some kind of
firewall/antivirus/whatever suite? If so, which?
---
Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20


"Chris" wrote:

> Running Vista Ultimate
> The desktop goes blank, the mouse cursor is visible and movable but I cannot
> right click and get any anything to happen. The keyboard does not produce
> anything except an alt-ctrl-del which brings up a dialog
> Titled:
> Login process has failed to create the security options dialog
> With a dialog message of:
> Failure - Security Options
>
> I have seen that others have had similar happen but have not seen any
> solutions or causes posted.
> Anyone here know how to deal with this?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
>
>

I have Symantec Security Client installed.
I run the 64bit version at work and have not had any problems with it. The
problem machine is a 32bit.
If I get the thing to boot again I'll uninstall Symantec and see what
happens.
Thanks,
Chris


"Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B6E30C4D-6186-4822-B045-16A0502C1A52@microsoft.com...
> More than likely this happens because you have a non-Vista compatible
> security suite installed. Have you installed some kind of
> firewall/antivirus/whatever suite? If so, which?
> ---
> Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20
>
>
> "Chris" wrote:
>
>> Running Vista Ultimate
>> The desktop goes blank, the mouse cursor is visible and movable but I
>> cannot
>> right click and get any anything to happen. The keyboard does not produce
>> anything except an alt-ctrl-del which brings up a dialog
>> Titled:
>> Login process has failed to create the security options dialog
>> With a dialog message of:
>> Failure - Security Options
>>
>> I have seen that others have had similar happen but have not seen any
>> solutions or causes posted.
>> Anyone here know how to deal with this?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>

"Chris" <chris01@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:uw%23YIYitHHA.3796@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have Symantec Security Client installed.
> I run the 64bit version at work and have not had any problems with it. The
> problem machine is a 32bit.
> If I get the thing to boot again I'll uninstall Symantec and see what
> happens.
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
> "Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B6E30C4D-6186-4822-B045-16A0502C1A52@microsoft.com...
>> More than likely this happens because you have a non-Vista compatible
>> security suite installed. Have you installed some kind of
>> firewall/antivirus/whatever suite? If so, which?
>> ---
>> Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20
>>
>>
>> "Chris" wrote:
>>
>>> Running Vista Ultimate
>>> The desktop goes blank, the mouse cursor is visible and movable but I
>>> cannot
>>> right click and get any anything to happen. The keyboard does not
>>> produce
>>> anything except an alt-ctrl-del which brings up a dialog
>>> Titled:
>>> Login process has failed to create the security options dialog
>>> With a dialog message of:
>>> Failure - Security Options
>>>
>>> I have seen that others have had similar happen but have not seen any
>>> solutions or causes posted.
>>> Anyone here know how to deal with this?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Chris
I found the problem and it was not due to Symantec Antivirus.
I ran the Western Digital Diagnostics and it revealed that the S.M.A.R.T
data had errors in it..
I didn't look into exactly what the problem was but replaced the drive.
I haven't had a problem since and I've been using it for several weeks now.
The original problem was repeatable in several installations. For whatever
reason, the problem with the drive did not cause problems with Windows XP
but did cause problems with Vista.
A new C drive and life is good.

Chris