Logon Options?

[RDI]

I have a Dell Presario notebook running WinXP Home Edition. I've had it for
about 14 months. I am the ONLY user of this pc and there is no network
that I have to logon to.

Up until about a week ago when I booted up, it would immediately go into
windows (no logon dialog). Also when I clicked Start>ShutDown, a window
would come up that had three icons and two buttons (OK and Cancel)--there
was no drop-down list.

Then about a week ago, I booted up and I noticed that the logon screen was
now coming up. Then when I shut down that night, I had a dialog box with a
drop-down list instead of the icons that I'm used to.

How do I put things back the way they were?

It's been about 3 months since I last installed any new programs or made any
changes to the system. The only thing I can think of the MS Auto Updates.

TIA

 

[RDI]

Well after posting that, I shut down to go to bed. Guess what it was back
to normal! The ONLY thing that I've done to POSSIBLY change it back was:

(I had previously changed my logon option to NOT show the welcome
screen--this caused the logon dialog box to come up)
I dislike the dialog even more than the welcome screen so I set it BACK to
show the welcome screen. I think that this somehow reset it for me.

If anyone has experienced this trouble, see if that helps.