Abolishing the whole "Welcome Screen" thing in XP - reverting back to the
Windows 2000 (and NT) logon dialog box, may have the effect of not showing
the XP default pale-blue screens that display logon-status messages such as
"Applying your personal settings".
Also, you might try auto-login, if not already employed, this too may end
up by-passing the pale-blue logon screens.
From "Control Panel" > "User Accounts" change the setting : "Change the
way users log on or off" and uncheck the box marked ; "Use the welcome
screen". This gets rid of the Welcome Screen. Obtain from :
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
As for employing "auto-logon" , you can either use the free XP download :
TweakUI.exe and under the heading "Logon" > "Autologon" or you can
download the TechNet Sysinternals [free] app : "Autologon.exe" from :
http://live.sysinternals.com/Autologon.exe
Alternatively, copy the text below into Notepad and save as a [*.reg]
file - remembering to change the values for DefaultUserName,
DefaultDomainName and DefaultPassword (not encrypted) that I just filled in
with the words "User", "Domain" and "password" respectively...
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
"ForceAutoLogon"="1"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="User"
"DefaultDomainName"="Domain"
"DefaultPassword"="password"
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.