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Help: Login loop after installing SecureUxTheme
namazso edited this page Mar 22, 2020
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- Boot into recovery environment command prompt. Various ways of doing so can be found here
- Enter
regedit
then press return - Click
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Click File > Load Hive...
- Open
%windir%/system32/config/SOFTWARE
- Do note that you need this from your normal windows installation, and not WinPE (so the one on C: and not X: for most people)
- When it asks a name type in anything
- Open that key, and navigate to
Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\
in it - Delete values
VerifierDlls
andGlobalFlag
from keyssystemsettings.exe
,explorer.exe
,winlogon.exe
,LogonUI.exe
- You can just delete the keys for the ones that don't contain other values
- Keys
systemsettings.exe
,explorer.exe
,LogonUI.exe
may not exist or not have the keys if you didn't install hook for them
- Reboot. Your system should boot properly now
- You can completely remove the software by deleting
%windir%\system32\SecureUxTheme.dll
, or just clicking Uninstall in the installer - If you think you encountered a bug (so it wasn't just your AV deleting the dll or something out of my control) I'd like to ask you to post an issue.
For simplicity I also made a gif on performing steps 2 to 8 (inclusive):