Vista x86 crash - "Failure - Security Options"

I've been running Vista Ultimate x86 for about a month, I'm quite happy with
it. This is the first complete crash of the OS I experienced.

At the time of the crash, my computer was moderately busy: ripping a CD with
EAC, syncbackup was trying to establish a connection to a network share, one
instance of Firefox was open. A couple of explorer windows were open as
well.

At one point the 'busy' cursor started going on one of the explorer windows
while I was browsing it, and that was it. I could see the CPU usage meter
close to zero, but nothing worked. I tried closing the explorer windows
(not responding), and that seemed to do the trick, I had my PC back, but it
turned out that it was just for a minute or so.

I scheduled a disk check for next reboot. As the ripping had ended, I
closed EAC. I closed Firefox too, and I was waiting for syncbackup to
finish and then restart the PC, but again the PC got completely
non-responsive. I tried right click on the toolbar to open task manager: no
effect. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but no joy.

After about a minute the screen went dark with just the mouse cursor,
nothing else working. After a while a small box pops up: "logon process
has failed to create the security options dialog" with a red X icon and
"Failure - Security Options" and an OK button. Pressing the OK button got
me into a loop of back screens and "Failure - Security Options" boxes, I
ended up resetting the PC.

Strangely enough, Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor had no record of this
crash... it never happened. Hmm, that's one way of keeping reliability
numbers high. ;-)

I googled for this problem and found hundreds of hits, some reporting this
problem from RC1 or RC2 versions of Vista, so definetely I'm not alone. I
am using build 6000.

I found but a handful of hits about this issue on the Microsoft website.
Worse, they all those where pointing to some 'feedback' place on
connect.microsoft.com, to which a have no access.

Sounds like one of those issues waiting for a service pack, possibly that
would be service pack 1. :-)

HTH,
Luca

Hello, anybody there? I have a few questions.

1 - Are you aware of this "Failure - Security Options" issue at all?
2 - Do you have any idea about what is causing this issue and how to prevent
it / correct it?
3 - Why isn't Vista reporting this crash in the Event Viewer / Reliabilty
Monitor?
4 - Why there is so little available on the Microsoft website about this
problem?

Some feedback would be nice.

thanks,
Luca

"Ternerito" <me@local> wrote in message
news:9298100C-2F3C-426B-A737-...
> I've been running Vista Ultimate x86 for about a month, I'm quite happy
> with it. This is the first complete crash of the OS I experienced.
>
> At the time of the crash, my computer was moderately busy: ripping a CD
> with EAC, syncbackup was trying to establish a connection to a network
> share, one instance of Firefox was open. A couple of explorer windows
> were open as well.
>
> At one point the 'busy' cursor started going on one of the explorer
> windows while I was browsing it, and that was it. I could see the CPU
> usage meter close to zero, but nothing worked. I tried closing the
> explorer windows (not responding), and that seemed to do the trick, I had
> my PC back, but it turned out that it was just for a minute or so.
>
> I scheduled a disk check for next reboot. As the ripping had ended, I
> closed EAC. I closed Firefox too, and I was waiting for syncbackup to
> finish and then restart the PC, but again the PC got completely
> non-responsive. I tried right click on the toolbar to open task manager:
> no effect. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but no joy.
>
> After about a minute the screen went dark with just the mouse cursor,
> nothing else working. After a while a small box pops up: "logon process
> has failed to create the security options dialog" with a red X icon and
> "Failure - Security Options" and an OK button. Pressing the OK button got
> me into a loop of back screens and "Failure - Security Options" boxes, I
> ended up resetting the PC.
>
> Strangely enough, Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor had no record of
> this crash... it never happened. Hmm, that's one way of keeping
> reliability numbers high. ;-)
>
> I googled for this problem and found hundreds of hits, some reporting this
> problem from RC1 or RC2 versions of Vista, so definetely I'm not alone. I
> am using build 6000.
>
> I found but a handful of hits about this issue on the Microsoft website.
> Worse, they all those where pointing to some 'feedback' place on
> connect.microsoft.com, to which a have no access.
>
> Sounds like one of those issues waiting for a service pack, possibly that
> would be service pack 1. :-)
>
> HTH,
> Luca
>
>
>

I have exactly this same problem. Computer slows to a crawl. control Atl
delete yields failure - security options logon process has failed to create
the seciryt options dialog
Have run complete checkdisk and hard drive tests and everything comes up okay
Anyone at Microsoft have an idea?
No problems show up anywhere in event viewer


"Ternerito" wrote:

> Hello, anybody there? I have a few questions.
>
> 1 - Are you aware of this "Failure - Security Options" issue at all?
> 2 - Do you have any idea about what is causing this issue and how to prevent
> it / correct it?
> 3 - Why isn't Vista reporting this crash in the Event Viewer / Reliabilty
> Monitor?
> 4 - Why there is so little available on the Microsoft website about this
> problem?
>
> Some feedback would be nice.
>
> thanks,
> Luca
>
> "Ternerito" <me@local> wrote in message
> news:9298100C-2F3C-426B-A737-...
> > I've been running Vista Ultimate x86 for about a month, I'm quite happy
> > with it. This is the first complete crash of the OS I experienced.
> >
> > At the time of the crash, my computer was moderately busy: ripping a CD
> > with EAC, syncbackup was trying to establish a connection to a network
> > share, one instance of Firefox was open. A couple of explorer windows
> > were open as well.
> >
> > At one point the 'busy' cursor started going on one of the explorer
> > windows while I was browsing it, and that was it. I could see the CPU
> > usage meter close to zero, but nothing worked. I tried closing the
> > explorer windows (not responding), and that seemed to do the trick, I had
> > my PC back, but it turned out that it was just for a minute or so.
> >
> > I scheduled a disk check for next reboot. As the ripping had ended, I
> > closed EAC. I closed Firefox too, and I was waiting for syncbackup to
> > finish and then restart the PC, but again the PC got completely
> > non-responsive. I tried right click on the toolbar to open task manager:
> > no effect. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but no joy.
> >
> > After about a minute the screen went dark with just the mouse cursor,
> > nothing else working. After a while a small box pops up: "logon process
> > has failed to create the security options dialog" with a red X icon and
> > "Failure - Security Options" and an OK button. Pressing the OK button got
> > me into a loop of back screens and "Failure - Security Options" boxes, I
> > ended up resetting the PC.
> >
> > Strangely enough, Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor had no record of
> > this crash... it never happened. Hmm, that's one way of keeping
> > reliability numbers high. ;-)
> >
> > I googled for this problem and found hundreds of hits, some reporting this
> > problem from RC1 or RC2 versions of Vista, so definetely I'm not alone. I
> > am using build 6000.
> >
> > I found but a handful of hits about this issue on the Microsoft website.
> > Worse, they all those where pointing to some 'feedback' place on
> > connect.microsoft.com, to which a have no access.
> >
> > Sounds like one of those issues waiting for a service pack, possibly that
> > would be service pack 1. :-)
> >
> > HTH,
> > Luca
> >
> >
> >
>