Missing User on Welcome screen

[Patrick]

I have a user missing on the welcome screen and in the
user accounts section under the control panel. Their
profile is on the computer, I can log them one by hitting
ctrl alt del del and typing in their username, and if I
try to add them back it says they already exist. How can
I get them back on the welcome screen and user accounts.
I am not in safe mode and I am on windows xp home so I
can not run the group policy msc. Also I ran user
passwords2 before getting this problem. It says users
must enter a password and the second user does not have
one. I tried to clear that just in case but then it
wants to set up automatic login which I don't want.
Thanks for the help.

 

[Kelly]

This exact post has become very popular as of late and I for one, would love
to find the common glue here.

1. What has changed recently, that you can note on other than this?
2. Have you added any third party software recently (of any kind)?
3. Have you run any registry, spyware, system cleaners of any kind recently
(if so, list them)?

Any other notes you wish to add, as menial as they may seem, please make
note of them here.

 

[Guest]

I ran xp toolbar fix from doug knox to see if that would
add the status bar back to IE (I got the really easy
answer on that already). I just remembered when I was
typing everything else.

I ran control userpasswords2 and added the switch on
boot.ini to /SOS. I removed /SOS just in case that
caused the issue and I can't undo having run control
userpasswords2. I haven't done anything else, not even a
recent windows update. I did several days ago but this
problem only started today. I changed the boot.ini
switch and ran control userpasswords2 yesterday so one of
them may have caused this.

 

[Kelly]

Thank you! )

1. Glad you have that sorted and yes, that is a simple fix.
2. What exactly did you do while there?
3. As Boot.ini/SOS turns of the Welcome Screen, your troubles started
there.

Without knowing at this moment, what exactly changes via the registry by
doing so, I could suggest a System Restore, again, note that I said could.

BTW, what were your reasons for changing this setting? As in, which result
were you looking for?

Good luck and keep us all posted and thanks again for your feedback.




I ran xp toolbar fix from doug knox to see if that would
add the status bar back to IE (I got the really easy
answer on that already). I just remembered when I was
typing everything else.

I ran control userpasswords2 and added the switch on
boot.ini to /SOS. I removed /SOS just in case that
caused the issue and I can't undo having run control
userpasswords2. I haven't done anything else, not even a
recent windows update. I did several days ago but this
problem only started today. I changed the boot.ini
switch and ran control userpasswords2 yesterday so one of
them may have caused this.

 

[Guest]

The /SOS switch? I just wanted to see the behind the
scenes stuff. It didn't stop the welcome screen, only
the splash screen.

As far as control userpasswords2 I changed the missing
user to a power user since users accounts only has admins
and limited users. Sorry I didn't mention that. I have
XP pro on another machine and wanted to see if I could
get into group policy on XP home with that command too.
(which I can't)

 

[Kelly]

Interesting (Power user vs...) and no, Home doesn't have gpedit.




The /SOS switch? I just wanted to see the behind the
scenes stuff. It didn't stop the welcome screen, only
the splash screen.

As far as control userpasswords2 I changed the missing
user to a power user since users accounts only has admins
and limited users. Sorry I didn't mention that. I have
XP pro on another machine and wanted to see if I could
get into group policy on XP home with that command too.
(which I can't)