Welcome Screen / Fast Switching Disabled - BCMlogon.dll

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I'm having the same problem I see others have had with this except I think mine has to do with my Dell Wireless 1350 config. When trying to enable Welcome Screen I get the 'Recently installed program...disabled Welcome Screen and Fast Switching'. The message points to Windows/System32/bcmlogon.dll. This is a system file for the Dell Wireless Card, isn't it? Is this interfering with the WinXP user logging? I've searched all the forum messages, but can't find the answer to this one. All the others point to a file named cswGina.dll.   Everything was fine on my PC until I changed a setting with the wireless config, but changing it back has done no good! Any help out there?   Thanks.

MadThinker · Answer

It would help to know what you changed that caused this.

chrisintn · Answer

Yes you're right :). The only thing that I can think I changed is a setting that reads 'Let this tool manage your wireless connections'. It is found in the Dell Wireless Card Utility settings . I've de-selected this, hoping it would re-enable welcome screen, but it didn't. I can find absolutely no documentation on Microsoft or Dell about this.

jwatt · Answer

chris, You're welcome! It's strange that Broadcomm would distribute software that interferes with XP's fast user switching, but fortunately you weren't the first to fall victim to the problem! Jim

jwatt · Answer

chrisintn, This thread describes your problem exactly. Two possible fixes are listed in the reply by 'Ramesh'. Jim

chrisintn · Answer

Jim, thank you, thank you, thank you. The registry edit worked like a charm (plus it was easy)! chris.

jwatt · Answer

clwood, I searched Google Groups for BCMlogon.dll from the error page that's displayed, and found that the thread is now here. Jim Message Edited by jimw on 12-09-2004 02:00 PM

clwood · Answer

The link above is no longer available. Does anyone know what the fix was?

clwood · Answer

Thank you.

chrisintn · Answer

My situation is probably  unique one, but here's what caused my welcome and login screens to change to a sort of Windows 2000 one...I connect to my office via Checkpoint VPN. One of the settings is an 'auto-logon' feature where the VPN automatically logs you in once you're online. If enabled, it appears to sort of integrate itself with your Windows logon...and 'fast switching' is disabled. I suppose it could be possible that other applications that have an 'auto-logon' functionality could do the same thing.   Read earlier in this thread to see the solution; it's an easy fix.

clwood · Answer

I beleive this happened to me after my laptop crashed and I had to force a hard reboot. The exe on the link to the page above works fine and fixes it right up. I would recommend giving it a try. It is quite painless as someone has allready written the code to change the registry for you. Can't mess it up.   I have had a number of problems after installing SP2. I think I may format and do a fresh install of both Windows and SP2. My biggest problem is sometimes when the computer starts up it will kind of hang, but I can still look through and try to open applications from the start menu. However they won't open until about 5 minutes later. Kind of inefficient if I just want to boot it up and grab something real quick.

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