Well, I eliminated the weird login screen issue. That was my accidental doing. I was a bit more careless and renamed what I thought was a trojan "logonui.exe". Turns out this is the executable used to get the nice Windows splash screen that my relative enjoyed.

I renamed that one properly and regained the splash screen. It is interesting to note that if it does not exist Microsoft gracefully falls back to the old login screen.

If he reboots as another user in safe mode, he can regain his display tabs. It might be something corrupted in his profile.

I will take a closer look at that again or have him make a new user. Seems like the spyware is gone, it is just some left over damaged parts that the spyware left behind. Sniffles.



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- Carroll Kong

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