Q
quietguy
Hi All
I have been running XP Home SP1 for a year, and had not had to do a
reinstall for nearly 2 months! A great achievment methinks.
But of course all good things come to an end, and so it is with me now.
Up until 2 days ago, when I installed Vegas 5 and some MS Network thingy
that Vegas said I had to have, when XP started up it just did - no
asking for passwords or such, hit the on button and away it would go.
When I shut down, a box appeared with three choices in a horizontal line
- shut down, restart, and cancel.
Now, when I start up it asks me for a password every time - this is by
way of a window that shows my user name, a place to enter a password,
and a row of buttons - OK - cancel - Shutdown - Options (plus of course
the top part of that Window says log onto Windows, and has the logos etc
on a blue background. Since I don;t have a password I just hit enter
and then Windows starts up.
When I Shut down now, instead of that Window with the three choices, I
get a Window asking me what I want to do, and with a drop down menu with
options to Restart, Shutdown, log off, and standby to choose from.
IN user accounts there is only me, and a provision for a guest.
I tried everything I could think of to get the computer back to how it
was but no joy. Tried system restore, NBG (it never works for me) and
reloading XP - but it is still the same. Naturally I removed vegas and
that Network thingy
Please help - do I have to do ANOTHER full reinstall and then reload all
my apps again? I get SO sick of doing this over and over - what a
bastard of an OS this Windows is.
David - spoilt by using Macs for so long.
I have been running XP Home SP1 for a year, and had not had to do a
reinstall for nearly 2 months! A great achievment methinks.
But of course all good things come to an end, and so it is with me now.
Up until 2 days ago, when I installed Vegas 5 and some MS Network thingy
that Vegas said I had to have, when XP started up it just did - no
asking for passwords or such, hit the on button and away it would go.
When I shut down, a box appeared with three choices in a horizontal line
- shut down, restart, and cancel.
Now, when I start up it asks me for a password every time - this is by
way of a window that shows my user name, a place to enter a password,
and a row of buttons - OK - cancel - Shutdown - Options (plus of course
the top part of that Window says log onto Windows, and has the logos etc
on a blue background. Since I don;t have a password I just hit enter
and then Windows starts up.
When I Shut down now, instead of that Window with the three choices, I
get a Window asking me what I want to do, and with a drop down menu with
options to Restart, Shutdown, log off, and standby to choose from.
IN user accounts there is only me, and a provision for a guest.
I tried everything I could think of to get the computer back to how it
was but no joy. Tried system restore, NBG (it never works for me) and
reloading XP - but it is still the same. Naturally I removed vegas and
that Network thingy
Please help - do I have to do ANOTHER full reinstall and then reload all
my apps again? I get SO sick of doing this over and over - what a
bastard of an OS this Windows is.
David - spoilt by using Macs for so long.