Welcome Screen

[Jerry]

I know I have seen this before but forgotten how to fix it.

Yesterday I helped a friend reinstall Win XP Home on a Dell Dimension 2350
desktop computer. A single user with NO password included in the setup.
After installing all the drivers, we updated XP including SP2 fully.
Updates included ALL the .net frameworks 01-03. I know that one of these
will cause the Welcome Screen to have User Icon to appear which must be
clicked to continue the bootup. Normally what I have seen in the past after
all critical updates are installed, this goes away.

In this case after all the critical updates were installed, the icon on the
Welcome Screen is still there. <Maybe a Dell thing not sure>. How do we
fix it so that the user icon does not a show and the boot continues without
having to click that icon.

Thank you

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Jerry,

You could either follow the instructions here:

Skip the Welcome Screen and Logon Automatically
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/welskip.php

or

D/load and install TweakUI, open TweakUI and uncheck ASP.NET in the Login
section or tab (I don't use TweakUI, so I can't picture its interface in
order to tell you exactly where to find the Login section). TweakUI can be
d/loaded from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Although I have never personally experienced a problem using the first
method that I posted for you, one newsgroup poster to whom I posted that fix
stated that he then found that his computer froze at the "Windows is
starting up" screen.



Regards,

 

[Jerry]

Thank you I will try that.

Hi Jerry,

You could either follow the instructions here:

Skip the Welcome Screen and Logon Automatically
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/welskip.php

or

D/load and install TweakUI, open TweakUI and uncheck ASP.NET in the Login
section or tab (I don't use TweakUI, so I can't picture its interface in
order to tell you exactly where to find the Login section). TweakUI can be
d/loaded from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Although I have never personally experienced a problem using the first
method that I posted for you, one newsgroup poster to whom I posted that
fix stated that he then found that his computer froze at the "Windows is
starting up" screen.



Regards,

 

[GazzLam]

From command prompt. just type "Control Userpasswords2".

Then you can specify the username and password to log in as automatically

(sidenote: doesn't work in a Server 2003 domain.... not a surprise, but I'm probably the ONLY person in the world that wants it to!)

 

[Patti MacLeod]

You're welcome



Regards,