How to turn off welcome screen-want to go straight to desktop

[Guest]

Within the past week I've been having a problem with the Welcome
Screen appearing and asking me to log in or click on my account name
before it takes me to my desktop. I've never had this before. when I
first turned on my computer it just said Welcome and went directly to
my desktop. It never showed computer accounts and asked me to click
one on in order to get to my desktop. Also, when the computer is idle
for a while and I wake it up-- the Welcome screen comes back, tells me I
have "X"
number of programs running, and I have to click on the user account to get
to my desktop.
I went to Start, Run and typed in control userpasswords2, clicked ok and
when the user account window opened up, unchecked the box which states"users
must enter a username and password to use this computer, and clicked apply. I
was requested for the user name and password on the acct to automatically
logon. Did this. Then I went to the advanced tab to disable asp.net but a
message appeared that told me "this snap in may not be used with Win XP home
edition"
How can I eliminate this screen and just go to the desktop when I boot
up the computer -- the way I did before?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Within the past week I've been having a problem with the Welcome
Screen appearing and asking me to log in or click on my account name
before it takes me to my desktop. I've never had this before. when I
first turned on my computer it just said Welcome and went directly to
my desktop. It never showed computer accounts and asked me to click
one on in order to get to my desktop. Also, when the computer is idle
for a while and I wake it up-- the Welcome screen comes back, tells me I
have "X"
number of programs running, and I have to click on the user account to get
to my desktop.
I went to Start, Run and typed in control userpasswords2, clicked ok and
when the user account window opened up, unchecked the box which states"users
must enter a username and password to use this computer, and clicked apply. I
was requested for the user name and password on the acct to automatically
logon. Did this. Then I went to the advanced tab to disable asp.net but a
message appeared that told me "this snap in may not be used with Win XP home
edition"
How can I eliminate this screen and just go to the desktop when I boot
up the computer -- the way I did before?

Locate, download and install TweakUI, part of the Powertoys for XP. Then,
under the "Logon" section, remove the "check-marks" for each/every user
account you do not want to see on the "Welcome" screen.