Logon problem

[C Tate]

I use Win XP. When I login to Windows I get a dialogue box coming up asking
me to enter a username and a password. I want to get rid of this so I log
straight in to Windows. How can I get rid of the box?

A further problem which has appeared recently is a message box appearing
which says 'wrong username or password'. I can still login even though I
think I have actually removed the password. At any rate, I certainly don't
enter a password but I can still login! Clearly the message is wrong and I
want to stop that appearing too.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I recommend you choose a password, but you don't have to. Go to start/run,
and type 'control userpasswords2' , Uncheck the password option, and follow
the wizard. This will log you on without asking for the password

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[C Tate]

OK, I did this. Now the dialogue comes up with administrator in the username
box. It asks for a password. I don't know what it is. I tried administrator.
Didn't work. Now I can't even get into windows. Help.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Assuming the user name and password you just set cannot be entered into the
log on dialog, this bootdisk download will allow blanking the password for
the default 'Administrator' account
Offline NT password utility:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
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[cf]

Of historical note on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:01:01 -0700
C Tate <[email protected]> scribed:

|OK, I did this. Now the dialogue comes up with administrator in the username
|box. It asks for a password. I don't know what it is. I tried administrator.
|Didn't work. Now I can't even get into windows. Help.
|
|"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
|
|> I recommend you choose a password, but you don't have to. Go to start/run,
|> and type 'control userpasswords2' , Uncheck the password option, and follow
|> the wizard. This will log you on without asking for the password
|>
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|> Mark L. Ferguson
|> .
|>
|> |> > I use Win XP. When I login to Windows I get a dialogue box coming up
|> > asking
|> > me to enter a username and a password. I want to get rid of this so I log
|> > straight in to Windows. How can I get rid of the box?
|> >
|> > A further problem which has appeared recently is a message box appearing
|> > which says 'wrong username or password'. I can still login even though I
|> > think I have actually removed the password. At any rate, I certainly don't
|> > enter a password but I can still login! Clearly the message is wrong and I
|> > want to stop that appearing too.
|> >
|> > Any advice would be much appreciated.
|> >
|> >

If you have never assigned a password most likely it is still the default (just leave it blank) and see if you get in.

hth