failure - security options logon process has failed to create dial

[cgilmore]

i have this same problem, my laptop starts up very slowly, and then freezes when i try to open programmes on occassion. i ran a disk error check and it found bad clusters but removed them. my laptop is almost a year old now. i have had no problems with it up until around 2 weeks ago. programmes nearly always show the not responding message now, and if i leave it and click nothing they come round and work without closing. if i use ctrl alt del, it will take around 1 minutes to give me a black screen and then will either show the secutiry options error message or will ctl alt del screen will appear within a few minutes.
i have had many problems with vista so far, i didnt want it to start with but i got a good deal on this laptop....
if i remove vista and use another operating system instead will it fix the problem??
since it is under warranty i may be able to take it bak and change it, altho i didnt really want to do this....

[Mr_E]

I Also had same problems...
Also wasn't sure about HD issues...
thought i'd take a closer look inside my pc.

Hard drives were very, very hot. I have 3 close together
My simple solution was to cool them down and so I added another fan to face them.
Now I don't get this error.

[anthonyg]

Okay this is my first post, I just thought that might be anyone out there facing the same problem might finally the solution. I personally faced this damn problem for 2 days and almost reformat the hardisk as my last resort.

Basically, I've tried EVERYTHING, starting from virus scan,mapping services,etc. The main indication is whenever I go into safe mode, the speed seems normal. I read somewhere that disabling window defender and firewall will speed up or restore your vista to normal. Well, i tried and it didnt work.

To cut the process short, I downloaded this free software called "Combo Fix"
I ran the program on desktop despite the slow ass process, which took me almost 3 hours and it automatically gives me this txt report. I just restart afterwards and the speed returns to normal and I re-installed my antivirus again..believe it or not it works again. So "Combo Fix" find it from good ol'google and hope it works for you.

[kunekune]

I also have this problem, this time on an Acer (yeah, well I didn't have good internet access when choosing it).

Just now, I managed to get the cntrl-alt-del to work while I was still successfully internetting. I then minimised it, so I could see it while I browsed. When I froze, a few minutes later, it was at 100% cpu usage. The culprit was chrome.

I don't think it's a chrome problem, because we have another computer that has had similar problems and is running IE (we have a lot of laptops). Just wondering: what kind of internet access do people have?

We're operating a wireless system, BT homehub. Other computers on the same system, all using Vista, but possibly with other differences (the chip?), seem to be ok.

[MVI]

ffs... for all those people who cop-out with the 'just re-format your HD' or 'Get a new HD' solution. That's like fixing a car by nuking it and getting a new one / replacing everything inside it - you're bound to no longer have a problem but you haven't even addressed it!

anyway! my solution! go to safe mode - whatever is interfering with the processes and services does not seem to affect anything there; go to your control panel, go to system - and go open your services panel.

DISABLE anything that you seriously don't need and following from previous advice disable Readyboost (reading from its description, it does interfere with programs and tools as you execute them). I also disabled an array of other such services that are similar to it (anything that says it 'enhances' your experience of windows, or performance etc).

On top of disabling them, there are further options to stop it trying to re-initialise should it 'fail' (like lets say... being disabled).

That and I believe I also managed to get to the startup manager and disabled anything that is totally unnecessary to run.

So far so good now that I've done this- apps and tools can be executed anytime, and task manager no longer shits a brick when I try to start it up (via Ctrl+Alt+Del OR Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

Good luck all.

[Daruma]

I am having the same problem with our laptop since the last windows auto update. Can't seem to figure what was installed that needs removed since the date doesn't show. Any ideas? Tried to restore and got didn't work after trying different restore points with no luck and then my restore points disappeared.. I didn't remove them and not sure what did. Can't get task manager to open due to Failure Security options, which I also did not change,

DSKCHK hangs @ Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys not sure if it's suppose to go further, sometimes it starts & other times just stops and can't even do the second check always stops at a specific file number.

Please let me know if anyone has an answer or looks like need to do something before 1st year is up...