/ConsoleLogonHook

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ConsoleLogonHook

Welcome!

This project hooks onto and provides a graphical user interface for the console logon screen in Windows 10.

Warning

THIS PROJECT IS IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND MIGHT BE UNSTABLE

You may encounter issues using a Microsoft account, however, this will work perfectly fine on local accounts.

Disabling the lockscreen and the CTRL Alt Del logon keybinds is recommended as they're not fully implemented yet.

Knowing this, You might use this at your own risk.

How to contribute to the project

The following steps explain how you can contribute to the project

  1. Fork this repository.
  2. Pull using git commandline, or any Git UI manager (such as Github Desktop, etc.)
  3. Enjoy.

Installation

Warning

This will require administrator privileges to be installed.

  1. Copy the 2 DLL files (ConsoleLogonHook.dll and ConsoleLogonUI.dll) from Releases into %SYSTEMROOT%\System32

2. Take authui.dll from Windows 7 SP1, rename it to au7hui.dll and place it into %SYSTEMROOT%\System32, Or alternatively, just copy au7hui.dll from releases. This is required, as ConsoleLogonHook will push resources from it to use in the logon screen. No longer necessary as of v1.0.6

3. Take ownership of ConsoleLogon.dll and replace it with the version from Releases, this a temporary solution until a pdb offset finder system is added in. No longer necessary as of v1.0.3

  1. Open a CMD window as TrustedInstaller via PsExec64 and copy and paste the following commands:
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRuntime\ActivatableClassId\Windows.Internal.UI.Logon.Controller.ConsoleBlockedShutdownResolver /v DllPath /t REG_SZ /d %systemroot%\System32\ConsoleLogonHook.dll /f

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRuntime\ActivatableClassId\Windows.Internal.UI.Logon.Controller.ConsoleLockScreen /v DllPath /t REG_SZ /d %systemroot%\System32\ConsoleLogonHook.dll /f

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRuntime\ActivatableClassId\Windows.Internal.UI.Logon.Controller.ConsoleLogonUX /v DllPath /t REG_SZ /d %systemroot%\System32\ConsoleLogonHook.dll /f

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRuntime\ActivatableClassId\Windows.Internal.Shell.PlatformExtensions.ConsoleCredUX /v DllPath /t REG_SZ /d %systemroot%\System32\ConsoleLogonHook.dll /f

or merge the regkey in the release zip as trusted installer.

  1. Take ownership of the file Windows.UI.Logon.dll and rename it to something else. Example: Windows.UI.Logon.dll.bak, this is required as it will force the use of the console logon screen.