Possible Problem

[Gary Avrett]

Things worked fine until a friend of mine and I installed Service Pack 1
on our respective computers. After doing so he experienced a glitch in
the boot up to windows. He is the only user with one account login.
Instead of booting directly to windows it boots to the Login Icon and
asks for a password. Since there is no password he just had to click OK
and it would boot to windows. I had my login password protected. About a
week after he experienced this and nothing seemed to help I decided to
remove the password from my account login under USER ACCOUNTS area.
Afterward it did the identical same thing has his..booted to login icon
and asked for password...click OK and it booted to Windows XP Desktop.
To clear this (as nothing else seemed to work) I thought I would try
making another USER ACCOUNT then delete the original. Upon logging off I
noticed the 2 USER ACCOUNT icons were back to normal with no windows
asking for a password. I then logged into my original account and under
USER ACCOUNTS I deleted the second account I just made then rebooted the
computer. It now works fine. I suggested to my friend to try the same
thing...He did and received the same results...problem fixed!
Upon talking about this issue...my friend stated "You know I think this
has something to do with installing service pack 1".
I told him I was coming to the same thought.
Could you please check into this and see if you can fix it.
Thanks,
Gary

 

[Tom]

<snipped>

These are due to all the security fixes that came bundled in SP1 when it was
released back in Sept. 2002, and there have been many since, but:

This is no big thing, if in the next occasion this arises, type (no quotes)
"control userpasswords2" in Start/Run, and click OK. In the applet, uncheck
the box "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer",
and the problem will be gone.

Could you please check into this and see if you can fix it.
Thanks,
Gary

Well, these help newsgroups are not supported directly by Microsoft, rather
they are just people who have good experience using Windows (in their
various flavors) and offering help with their free time. Microsoft does not
control what support/advice one gets from these groups. Microsoft does allow
the use of their servers for all of these groups, with no charge.
Personally, I think they are a great service, and the people provide
excellent help when they are able.

If you want to report this bug per se, you would need to contact MS
directly, via e-mail, etc.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Gary,

Actually, it is caused by installing the .net framework, as it creates a new
user account. You can easily fix the autologon with the following steps:

Start/run "control userpasswords2" (without the quotes).

Uncheck the box requiring a username and password, click apply/ok and follow
the prompts to set up a default logon.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone