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Winlogon

A part of the Windows operating system that provides interactive logon support. Winlogon is designed around an interactive logon model that consists of three parts: the Winlogon executable, a Graphical Identification and Authentication dynamic-link library (DLL) referred to as the GINA, and any number of network providers.