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Question

I cant login to my laptop windows xp

Jun 27, 2012 2:21PM PDT

I downloaded pGina version 1.8.8 and shortly after, I couldn't see my personal files on my laptop. It asks for a username and password to login to pGina when I turn on my laptop, but I never had the chance to create a username and password to pGina. I have been logging in as "admin". I have tried to configure pGina but when I change the settings, it defaults to the original settings before i changed them. My administrator user is limited only views and can't make changes. I have also tried safe mode\safe mode with network\debugging \boot logging.
In safe mode, I was looking for disabling and uninstalling pGina but when I try to uninstall pGina it says I don't have administrative rights. The reason I downloaded pGina was because my laptop couldn't connect to a more secure protocol WPA2 and kept defaulting to WEP in windows. My laptop hasn't had this problem before and I have been able to access WPA2 at other wifi hotspots. My network adaptor is Atheros AR5001X IEEE 802.1X V 3.20.3 that has WPA\WPA2 features for secure internet connection.

So I've searched about this issue and I found that windows has a problem in "unable to authenticate certification authorization" and because of that matter I researched and I found that a program called XSUPPLICANT 2.2.0.710 resolves that problem by replacing windows authentication by installing a new authenticator.
Xsupplicant and pGina come hand in hand. Xsupplicant working on the internet connection, and pGina is an interface in GINA windows.
Please let me know in detail how to resolve this issue.
We can't determine if this is an error or settings issue.
Any suggestions to where and how to obtain the right information will be VERY appreciated.

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Clarification Request
I'll ask it.
Jun 27, 2012 9:00PM PDT

Why would we need all that? I've used my old XP SP3 machine to get access on WPA2 for many years.

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login problem
Jun 27, 2012 5:19PM PDT

You should have to reinstall your window XP and then reinstall pGina with another version that is compatible with window XP.

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Jul 3, 2012 2:44PM PDT

Thank you so much for your information, But will reinstalling windows xp erase all my personal files? Please let me know if this is the case. Also please let me know if you have more information about DLL and H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE issues and solutions.

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It usually does wipe out the files folk didn't backup.
Jul 3, 2012 2:58PM PDT
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Jul 3, 2012 3:56PM PDT

Thank you for replying to the mentioned issue,it is very appreciated.

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Re: pGina
Jun 27, 2012 5:47PM PDT

XP SP2 and SP3 fully support WPA2. So I would reinstall the OS, and then upgrade to SP3. That's all you need.

Kees

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Jul 3, 2012 3:23PM PDT

Thank you for your input but I already have SP3 And it claims it supports WPA2/WPA. Like i mentioned before there is an issue authenticating the certificate. If you could help me with this issue it would be greatly appreciated