No User Accounts Appear on the Welcome Screen

[Guest]

I have a friends computer that has no user accounts appear when the XP
Welcome Screen comes up. How do I log into Windows? I can not even go through
Safe Mode, I get the same thing. The whole right side of the welcome screen
where the user accounts usually appear are gone.

Please Help!

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

See if this helps:

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the Welcome Screen. You'll get the older style
logon dialog. Log in with an account that has Administrator privileges.
Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

Right click in the right pane and select New, DWord value and give it the
exact name of one of the the user accounts that's missing. Double click
this value and set it to 1. This user should now appear on the Welcome
Screen. Repeat for each of the other accounts.

This is only a work around. Why the accounts disappear in the first place
is not known.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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[Demmpa]

I tried this, it didn't work. When I tried this, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL twice as
sugested. "XP" came up in the username on the login. I tried entering the
username that had always been used on the machine, but it didn't work.

Any more ideas, short of reload???

try to logon with the builtin administartor account
in the classic loginscreen
if you dont remember the password see this site
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

[Guest]

This sounds an aweful lot like the accounts have been disabled through the
Computer Management interface. You should check this and eliminate that
possibility.

Right-click on the "My Computer" icon and select "Manage" from the popup
menu. Expand the "Local Users and Groups" item in the tree on the left, then
click on "Users". You should see a list of all user accounts configured on
the machine i the pane on the right.

If the accounts in question do not appear, they probably don't exist, and
that's the problem -- they got deleted somehow. If they do show up (as they
should), double click on any of them (equivalent to right-clicking and
selecting "Properties"), and make sure the "Account is disabled" checkbox is
clear. If it is not, clear it, then click
"OK". Perform this check for each misbehaving login.

They should then all reappear on the welcome screen, and will also be
accessible through the old-style login panel. You may have to reboot to get
them to show up on the welcome screen.

Dave

I tried this, it didn't work. When I tried this, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL twice as
sugested. "XP" came up in the username on the login. I tried entering the
username that had always been used on the machine, but it didn't work.

Any more ideas, short of reload???

V

See if this helps:

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the Welcome Screen. You'll get the older style
logon dialog. Log in with an account that has Administrator privileges.
Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Right click in the right pane and select New, DWord value and give it the
exact name of one of the the user accounts that's missing. Double click
this value and set it to 1. This user should now appear on the Welcome
Screen. Repeat for each of the other accounts.

This is only a work around. Why the accounts disappear in the first place
is not known.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

I have a friends computer that has no user accounts appear when the XP
Welcome Screen comes up. How do I log into Windows? I can not even go through
Safe Mode, I get the same thing. The whole right side of the welcome screen
where the user accounts usually appear are gone.

Please Help!

 

[Guest]

I have most of these suggestions. Some I can not try because I can not login
to windows in any way. It's looking alot like I may just have to wipe it out
and reload.

Vance