Autologon and Classic Style

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This one has been bugging me for quite some time. For about 2 months now my
wife's computer (which is set to auto-logon to her account) boots up in XP
Style which she absolutely hates. She wants the classic style and has to
reset it just about everytime. It's not all the time, but maybe about 75%
of the time.

I've tried the suggested fixes (forcing via group policy, registry hacks,
etc...) nothing fixes it except for disabling the auto-logon. She doesn't
want to deal with that or the XP Style so now I'm stuck between a rock and a
hard place on what to do.

My thoughts are this... with the auto-logon, the desktop starts to appear
before the computer has the chance to load the desired visual style, so it
defaults to the ms default of XP style. Is there anyway to run a batch
file, visual basic script or anything that can change the desktop to classic
style after logging in?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[avstorm]

Try right clicking the Start button and select properties

 

[Mike Brearley]

And what will that do? I want the classic visual style, not the classic
start menu. Any normal way of setting it works for that session, but as I
said in my original post, after rebooting, 75% of the time it reverts back
to XP Style.

Thanks anyway...

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Nightowl]

For about 2 months now my
wife's computer (which is set to auto-logon to her account)

Mike, how exactly is the auto-logon on your wife's computer set up?

I mean, is it that she is the only user and has no password, or have you
set it through control userpasswords2?

I'm just guessing, but wondering if the former is true, whether setting
a password and using control userpasswords2 for auto-logon might give
different results. . .

 

[Mike Brearley]

I set it up manually in the registry... basically enables autoadminlogon
registry key (setting it to 1) and putting in the defaultpassword key. I
imagine it's the same that control userpasswords2 does.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Nightowl]

I set it up manually in the registry... basically enables autoadminlogon
registry key (setting it to 1) and putting in the defaultpassword key. I
imagine it's the same that control userpasswords2 does.

Probably, though I have default user but no default password I can see
in mine.

I know you've tried a lot of things, but is it worth checking that
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
has "NoSaveSettings" set to 0?