Automatic activation of login screen password box

[Guest]

i have trawled the Internet and cannot find a solution to my fickle problem.
its not a very big problem, but more of an annoyance really. so if you can
help me rid this annoyance, PLEASE help! thank you!


on my computer, i am running windows xp home edition, sp2 with only 1 user
account. i prefer the newer windows xp login screen (where you click the user
to get in) rather than type in the user name and i have the single account
passworded.

here's my problem:
up until recently, while at this login screen, i would not be required to
click on my profile in order to activate the blinking character for password
entry. if i wanted to log in, i simply turned on the computer and when it was
ready, i would simply enter the password because the box would be active.
now however, my computer has decided that i have to move the mouse over to
my profile space and click on it to activate. i know its not very much to
have to move the mouse, but i tend to use only keyboard commands to navigate
myself around windows due to its speed advantages. i cant for the world of me
think why this has happened, and i would love if i could restore this setting
if possible because its really bugging me!

any help or comments are greatly appreciated!

noccer

 

[Guest]

well, without much info on the why this happened. I would suggest that you
may have a RAT. that is, someone has hacked your system and is remotely using
it. I may be dead wrong (which I hope) but that is my immediate thinking on
this.

 

[Guest]

aha dr zen,

that does trigger something in my memory actually. someone from my computer
was accessing another computer remotely- me!
i was accessing my work computer. this would conincide with the timing too.
i had forgotten all about that. i must investigate this further, thanks for
bringing this up...

kind regards,
noccer

 

[Guest]

you are welcome, let me know what you found out

aha dr zen,

that does trigger something in my memory actually. someone from my computer
was accessing another computer remotely- me!
i was accessing my work computer. this would conincide with the timing too.
i had forgotten all about that. i must investigate this further, thanks for
bringing this up...

kind regards,
noccer

 

[Guest]

well, i restored my remote settings to their formet settings and hey presto
everything is ok! thanks for your suggesion,

noccer