No User Accounts on Welcome Screen

[Guest]

When I power on my PC, I get the Welcome Screen without any user accounts to
select. Earlier today the Welcome Screen was fine.

I read that I can ctrl-alt-del to log on, but when I do that I have a
problem also. I get a log on box with "owner" in the user line. I have
never set up passwords, so I leave the password blank and click log on. I
get a message telling me local policy does not allow me to log on. I am
stuck. Does anyone have a suggestion?

 

[CWatters]

When I power on my PC, I get the Welcome Screen without any user accounts to
select. Earlier today the Welcome Screen was fine.

I read that I can ctrl-alt-del to log on, but when I do that I have a
problem also. I get a log on box with "owner" in the user line. I have
never set up passwords, so I leave the password blank and click log on. I
get a message telling me local policy does not allow me to log on. I am
stuck. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Try this page perhaps..

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm

 

[Guest]

I didn't see anything on that page that was helpful. I have now tried
booting in safe mode. I still come to a welcome screen and there are no user
accounts to select. If I ctrl-alt-del, then I get a log on with the user
name of owner. When I click ok, I get a message that says "The local policy
of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." I'm stuck.

 

[lforbes]

When I power on my PC, I get the Welcome Screen without any
user accounts to
select. Earlier today the Welcome Screen was fine.

I read that I can ctrl-alt-del to log on, but when I do that I
have a
problem also. I get a log on box with "owner" in the user
line. I have
never set up passwords, so I leave the password blank and
click log on. I
get a message telling me local policy does not allow me to log
on. I am
stuck. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Hi,

Hit the CTRL-ALT-Del. Remove the "owner" and put in Administrator .
Leave the pwd blank. If this doesn’t work, restart in SafeMode (press
F8 after your BIOS page at boot). Login as Administrator with a blank
pwd.

I am not sure what OS you are running - Home or Pro.

After getting in as Administrator, go into the Users and check they
are there. Create a new one.

If you haven’t made any changes you may have been infected by a virus
of some sort.

If you are running XP Pro you can run gpedit.msc at the command line.
Then go to CompConfig-Windows-Security-Local Policies-User Rights
Assignment. Check under "Deny logon locally" and "Logon Locally".
Make sure only the "Support" and "Guest" are in the Deny, and ALL
users are in the "Logon locally".

Cheers,

Lara

 

[Guest]

I am running xp home edition with sp2. I tried your suggestion of changing
owner to administrator, but I got the same results in both regular and safe
mode.

To my knowledge nothing has been changed on the computer. It was fine
earlier this morning. I turned it off because a lightning storm was in the
area. When we rebooted later, this problem occurred.

 

[Guest]

I am having this exact same issue and have been struggling with it for over a
week now. MIsery loves company! I had downloaded spybot S&D and someione
said that mght have had something to do with it. Did you download it too?
Something in the secutirty or something? It really messed me up when I
downloaded XP SP2..when I uninstalled it I could atleast get back on the
internet but now I can't even get in?!

 

[Guest]

No recent downloads. I did install SP2 a month or two ago, but everything
was fine until today.

 

[Malke]

I am running xp home edition with sp2. I tried your suggestion of
changing owner to administrator, but I got the same results in both
regular and safe mode.

To my knowledge nothing has been changed on the computer. It was fine
earlier this morning. I turned it off because a lightning storm was
in the
area. When we rebooted later, this problem occurred.

Bryan, try booting to Last Known Good Configuration and see if that
solves the issue.

Malke

 

[Malke]

I am having this exact same issue and have been struggling with it for
over a
week now. MIsery loves company! I had downloaded spybot S&D and
someione
said that mght have had something to do with it. Did you download it
too? Something in the secutirty or something? It really messed me up
when I downloaded XP SP2..when I uninstalled it I could atleast get
back on the internet but now I can't even get in?!

Amy, don't hijack someone else's thread even if you think your problem
is similar. It makes it very difficult to give all posters good help.
Make a new post for your question, giving all pertinent details. Here
are some links to help you make a good newsgroup post:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


Malke

 

[Guest]

Okay. I tried it, but I got the same result. I did notice that when I used
ctrl-alt-del and changed the user name to administrator, the logon message I
got says "Unable to log you on because of an account restriction."

I have not done anything unique with my user accounts. No passwords, no
special restrictions. I just set two accounts up one for me and one for my
wife.

Any other ideas?

 

[lforbes]

I didn't see anything on that page that was helpful. I have
now tried
booting in safe mode. I still come to a welcome screen and
there are no user
accounts to select. If I ctrl-alt-del, then I get a log on
with the user
name of owner. When I click ok, I get a message that says
"The local policy
of this system does not permit you to logon interactively."
I'm stuck.


 > > When I power on my PC, I get the Welcome Screen
without any user accounts
 > > select. Earlier today the Welcome Screen was fine.
 > >
 > > I read that I can ctrl-alt-del to log on, but when I
do that I have a
 > > problem also. I get a log on box with "owner" in
the user line. I have
 > > never set up passwords, so I leave the password
blank and click log on. I
 > > get a message telling me local policy does not allow
me to log on. I am
 > > stuck. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Hi,

This is very weird because it is Home Edition there are no security
settings to restrict logging in interactively. Pro has these
restrictions. The Administrator account can only be used in SafeMode.
Can you list the error you get using Administrator and a blank pwd (or
one you may have created for the administrator on install) in
SafeMode?

Does it still give you the interactive message? Did you try your wifes
account? I have searched symantec and MS with no results.

Is your copy of XP Home on a real MS CD that you can use to do a
recovery?

Cheers,

Lara

 

[Kelly]

Boot into Safe Mode to the Admin account and log in. From there, perform a
System Restore.

--
Happy New Year,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[CWatters]

I didn't see anything on that page that was helpful. I have now tried
booting in safe mode. I still come to a welcome screen and there are no user
accounts to select. If I ctrl-alt-del, then I get a log on with the user
name of owner. When I click ok, I get a message that says "The local policy
of this system does not permit you to logon interactively." I'm stuck.

Google suggested...

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6268_11-5313668.html