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Date: 2010jan25
OS: Windows XP

Q.  A virus changed the user UserInit registry key for WinLogon.
What's the normal setting?

A.  On Windows XP, the normal setting for UserInit is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
	 UserInit = c:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe

Change it (carefully) with RegEdit.
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