Installation glitch

[Jay]

An electrical interrupt (lightning) stopped an office
computer abruptly. It kept claiming a need to go
into "Recovery Console" to repair a file. It was
mistaken. I reloaded the Win 2000 and then the XP
upgrade to get the computer going again. Then I prepared
the 5 different profiles for the users and rebooted.

The boot came up in the administrator profile I was using
(with a password) without going through the profile
selection page. All profiles are password protected.
But the boot comes up automatically in the adinistrator
profile. How can I stop this and get the XP to go to the
profile pag?

 

[austinpctech]

An electrical interrupt (lightning) stopped an office
computer abruptly. It kept claiming a need to go
into "Recovery Console" to repair a file. It was
mistaken. I reloaded the Win 2000 and then the XP
upgrade to get the computer going again. Then I prepared
the 5 different profiles for the users and rebooted.

The boot came up in the administrator profile I was using
(with a password) without going through the profile
selection page. All profiles are password protected.
But the boot comes up automatically in the adinistrator
profile. How can I stop this and get the XP to go to the
profile pag?

Jay,

First, it was only suggesting that you go into the Recovery Console as an
opportunity to repair the problem. That would require you typing in
specific commands to perform the repair. Second, if you run into that
problem again, you don't have to reinstall a previous version of Windows to
only follow that up by installing a newer ugrade version. Save yoursef some
steps and go directly to installing XP. At some point during the process,
it will indicate that it does not find a previous qualifying version of
Windows to install, but gives you a chance to point to the location of where
that might be. That location would be your cd drive and you put your old cd
in the tray, let it read it, and then put the XP cd back in.

To turn off the AutoAdminLogon in XP you can do the following:

Click on Start, Run, and type "regedit".
Locate the following registry key -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
You do this by hitting the plus sign in front of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then
look below that and hit the plus sign in front of SOFTWARE, and so on until
you get to Winlogon. Once there, look on the right hand side of the screen
and double click on AutoAdminLogon and change the value from 1 to 0 and then
press enter. Close up the registry editor and reboot.

You can view the knowledge base article that describes this fully at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315231&Product=winxp,
but this document talks about turning AutoAdminLogon on instead of off so
you need to be sure that you change the 1 to a 0. You know computers are
really just all about 1's and 0's.

Good Luck