Please HELP! on USER login

[Gilbert DE CEULAER]

I (re)set up a old laptop.
Because I am the only one to use it, I wanted to get rid of the login
(Welcome) screen.
Looked this up and found (somewhere, but where ?) a command containing - I
think - "userpassword2".
Got the user-screen and ticked off the question if users have to log on with
their password.
After that all my setting were changed (read "erased"), and I always seem to
login as Administrator.
As I wanted to go back to the old system, I tried using "Settings/Control
Panel/User Accounts", but when I try "Change the way users log on or off" ,
I get "A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast
User Switching. To restore these features, you must uninstall the program.
The following name might help you identify the progam that made the change :
C:\WINDOWS\system32\awgina.dll".
(This seems to be part of AnyWhere).
I'm worried, please can somebody help me to get my system back to the
"maiden" state.
Gilbert

 

[Gilbert DE CEULAER]

See if this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817142

Thank you, JD, that solved the User-account-question.
Is there any way to get my old settings back, e.g. my Message Rules in OE ?
(lot of work, you know)
BTW, is Microsoft aware of the difficulty in getting just the name of the
newsgroup (I mean, to find "msnews.microsoft.com") ?
Indeed, with the loss of all my settings the newsgroups I subscribed were
also lost.
Regards and thanks again,
Gilbert

 

[JD]

I (re)set up a old laptop.
Because I am the only one to use it, I wanted to get rid of the login
(Welcome) screen.
Looked this up and found (somewhere, but where ?) a command containing - I
think - "userpassword2".
Got the user-screen and ticked off the question if users have to log on with
their password.
After that all my setting were changed (read "erased"), and I always seem to
login as Administrator.
As I wanted to go back to the old system, I tried using "Settings/Control
Panel/User Accounts", but when I try "Change the way users log on or off" ,
I get "A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast
User Switching. To restore these features, you must uninstall the program.
The following name might help you identify the progam that made the change :
C:\WINDOWS\system32\awgina.dll".
(This seems to be part of AnyWhere).
I'm worried, please can somebody help me to get my system back to the
"maiden" state.
Gilbert

See if this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817142

 

[JD]

Thank you, JD, that solved the User-account-question.
Is there any way to get my old settings back, e.g. my Message Rules in OE ?
(lot of work, you know)
BTW, is Microsoft aware of the difficulty in getting just the name of the
newsgroup (I mean, to find "msnews.microsoft.com") ?
Indeed, with the loss of all my settings the newsgroups I subscribed were
also lost.
Regards and thanks again,
Gilbert

Good to hear the one part is fixed. I don't use OE for newsgroups so I'm
not sure how to get your old setting back. Maybe post your question in
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general ?

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Is there any way to get my old settings back, e.g. my Message Rules in OE
? (lot of work, you know)

Message rules are stored in the Registry:
Log on as the user whose rules you want to recover and Export this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Rules

Before merging it into a new Identity or new machine, edit the REG file with
WordPad and change the GUID to agree with where you want to Merge it.


Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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