Interactive logon process initialization has failed.

[NorthstaNder]

Hi,

My Dad has just phoned me with the "Interactive logon process initialization has failed" problem on his Vista Home Premium 32 laptop.

Looking around the net it seems that this is a fairly recent thing and some people have said it has only happened since a recent update. Having said that, I have exactly the same laptop as my Dad and mine is fine

Anyway, he's bringing it round so I can have a look at it and it could be that I have to repair the Vista installation.

If I do repair the installation will he lose everything on his system? ie, is it akin to re-installing windows completely or does it just restore system files?

I've only ever done a system restore before, or a complete reformat, never a repair.

Thanks in advance.

 

[scooby555t]

as far as i know it only it replaces missing or damage files within windows but i could be wrong

 

[sneakypenguin]

as said above I think it will only repair any damaged files it finds, very unlikely to reinstall vista completely, back up any important files first, that way if it does reinstall vista you haven't lost anything