Eliminating Windows Login

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My wife hates the Windows (XP) login screen and wants to get rid of it. It
probably has some useful purpose but none that we can figure out in the home
environment. I got rid of on my XP machine last winter when it was still
new but I can't remember how I did it. Any suggestions?
 
Joe McGuire said:
My wife hates the Windows (XP) login screen and wants to get rid of
it. It probably has some useful purpose but none that we can figure
out in the home environment. I got rid of on my XP machine last
winter when it was still new but I can't remember how I did it. Any
suggestions?

Tweakui for WinXP: Ver. 2.10 requires WinXP SP1 and later
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/downloads/powertoys.asp

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How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315231

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My wife hates the Windows (XP) login screen and wants to get rid of it. It
probably has some useful purpose but none that we can figure out in the home
environment. I got rid of on my XP machine last winter when it was still
new but I can't remember how I did it. Any suggestions?
 
HI...I got the log in screen on my pc a few days back and I just clik my
account and then change the picture and now I got no more log in screen
,hope it can do that to your pc as well,no harm trying .
 
Joe said:
My wife hates the Windows (XP) login screen and wants to get rid of
it. It probably has some useful purpose but none that we can figure
out in the home environment. I got rid of on my XP machine last
winter when it was still new but I can't remember how I did it. Any
suggestions?




Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want to
logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a user name
and password to use this computer."

Or do the same thing with TweakUI.
 
Ken:

I followed your instructions (Start, Run, etc) and unchecked the box "Users
must enter a user name.." Oddly, I then got a dialog box telling me to
"...specify a user that will be automatically logged on below." The User
name at this point was "Administrator" and the boxes for Password anc
Confirm Password were blank. I left them blank and clicked Apply. However,
when I rebooted I got an error message "Unable to log you on because of an
account restriction." Behind that error message was, well, the Logiin
Window with the User Name as Administrator and blanks in the boxes for
Password/Confirm Password. I clicked OK without entering any password since
we never created one as far as I know, but got the same error message. I
thought of trying to use my wife's Login (The original Login window--the one
that led me to post this question--contained my hername.) At this point I
don't recall exactly how her name was phrased (Just her first name? First
and Last? Did it include her middle initial?) so I am wary of making another
unwitting mistake with potential long-term consequences--we obviously made
one somewhere in the process of setting up this new computer. Any
recommendations to we can use the computer again?

Does this process actually get rid of the entire logging-in process? Or
does it merely let the process go on out of sight and out of mind? If the
latter, can we forget the user names and passwords (my wife's as well as the
Adminiistrator's) or do we still have to remember them in case they are ever
needed?
 
Long delay to reply but you proved to be right, except that there is one
more step. In the opening screen you have to temporarily check the box for
requiring names and passwords, select the user account, open it and then
change the setting so that Windows will automatically do the logon. On the
way back out I unchecked the box and now the wife's computer boots up
without interruption.
 

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