I have multiple winlogon.exe files on my machine, and one's taking up a lot of memory - what do I do?

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Great help!! Thanks!!

my system32 winlogon is around 300,000 bytes
what does this mean ? :s

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I'm not sure that it means anything.

Leo

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This is great. I am techno-baffled at teh best of times and my XP system is a mystery. Recently, I've slowed right down (and so has my computer:)). More recently, I noticed in Task Manager that this file is eating up 97% of CPU, almost always! Thanks to "googleing" based on my suspicions and your article which came up on search, I "searched through my computer to find 5 files on my C: and 1 temporary internet file with this file listed. I am not sure if I'll figure the whole thing out, but I feel like I am pointed in the right direction and armed with some useful information!

Thank you VERY much for taking some of the panic away.

the process viewer works great :) but remember this there isnt and never will be a winlogon.exe in the c:/windows folder so if you find it there its a renamed malware/virus, had this issue i booted to safe mode and renamed the file then restarded and delted the renamed file and now i only have 1 winlogon.exe in explorer hope that helps some ppl

Hi,
You say that you have 4 winlogon.exe files but i have one directly under "C:/". Does this mean that any other winlogon.exe files are malware??

This article was the most helpful of any I found. Some of my winlogon.exe files did not match your specs (different size & date) which is probably the problem. I copied the \i386 file which was the same and replaced the one in \system32. So far this has helped.
WARNING! Do not attempt to restart your computer without winlogon.exe in \system32 file. You will get a visit from the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!

--Thanks for your help, Leo!

I have a copy of winlogon.exe in my Root Directory of WINDOWS. Not in System32 or System

everytime i turn on my computer and winlogon.exe come up and i hit ok or cancel my computer turn off by itself..... what to do to prevent that and install my anti-virus
thank you

Johnny

hi i just had an error.. a pop up came saying winlogon had an issue....
that happened after 5 times i turned on/off my pc to enter windows i was scared idk if that will keep happening... when i turned my pc on it got stucked on the very first black screen where it checks the devices (hard drives and dvds) ... it just didnt showed anything like if it didnt found the hard drives and dvds... so thats when i turned off/on again like 5 times until it finally found the hard drive and dvds and started windows...
weird im a little scared.. after that when windows started it came the winlogon.exe error..
what should i do?
i already checked my winlogon.exe files i just got 2 and are under the descriptions avobe so i guess its not malware/virus...

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