How to get rid of unwanted logon screen at startup?

[Guest]

I have one user defined on the machine, say "myprofile," defined as an
administrative user. Until recently when I logged on the machine booted up
directly to the desktop without offering me any logon screen or any need to
choose users.

Then last week I briefly experimented with having different users, making
user myprofile to be limited - this and that. I abandoned all these changes
in the end end, and went back to just how things were.

However, Windows now presents a logon screen with a choice between myprofile
and the default "administrator" user. This is completely un-necessary. Is
there any way to get rid of it, and boot up as myprofile by default? (There
are no passwords.)

Many thanks
Andrew White

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have one user defined on the machine, say "myprofile," defined as an
administrative user. Until recently when I logged on the machine booted up
directly to the desktop without offering me any logon screen or any need
to
choose users.

Then last week I briefly experimented with having different users, making
user myprofile to be limited - this and that. I abandoned all these
changes
in the end end, and went back to just how things were.

However, Windows now presents a logon screen with a choice between
myprofile
and the default "administrator" user. This is completely un-necessary. Is
there any way to get rid of it, and boot up as myprofile by default?
(There
are no passwords.)

Many thanks
Andrew White

- Click Start / Run / control userpasswords2 {Enter}
- Tick the box that requires users to enter a password.
- Click your account name.
- Untick the box that requires users to enter a password.
- Click OK.
- Enter the password for your account when prompted.
If it is a blank password, click OK.

 

[Guest]

Excellent! many thanks!

- Click Start / Run / control userpasswords2 {Enter}
- Tick the box that requires users to enter a password.
- Click your account name.
- Untick the box that requires users to enter a password.
- Click OK.
- Enter the password for your account when prompted.
If it is a blank password, click OK.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for the feedback.

Excellent! many thanks!

 

[Newbie Coder]

Andrew

This same question was discussed in this newsgroup on 15th July by Janetb
([email protected]) with the subject 'Automatic log-in'

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...eral&mid=99c66274-e457-4f4a-920d-bc7cce876631