Returning from standy to Welcome Screen

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Jack Gillis

I finally added a limited user to my XP Home system in addition to my
own administrator account. Fast User Swithcing is on and the Registry
DefaultUserName is my name thus bypassing the Welcome Screen on boot up.

From either account, when the system goes into standby and
returns after a key press, I get the Welcome Screen asking me to choose
which account to use. Seems to me that the system should know which
account was active and return to that account on being brought out of
Standby. Am I wrong about that? What do I need to do to get the system
to bypass the Welcome Screen and return to the account which was active
before going to standby.

Thank you for any help on this.
 
Go to your Screensaver tab in Display Properties and remove the
check next to "on resume, display Welcome Screen".

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I finally added a limited user to my XP Home system in addition to my
| own administrator account. Fast User Swithcing is on and the Registry
| DefaultUserName is my name thus bypassing the Welcome Screen on boot up.
|
| From either account, when the system goes into standby and
| returns after a key press, I get the Welcome Screen asking me to choose
| which account to use. Seems to me that the system should know which
| account was active and return to that account on being brought out of
| Standby. Am I wrong about that? What do I need to do to get the system
| to bypass the Welcome Screen and return to the account which was active
| before going to standby.
|
| Thank you for any help on this.
 
Carey said:
Go to your Screensaver tab in Display Properties and remove the
check next to "on resume, display Welcome Screen".
Click to expand...

YES! Worked like a charm and once again I was making someting hard out
of something easy. I wasted a good bit of time fiddlng with the
settings in Power Options thinking the problem lay with Standby. Then I
noticed then Never was the entry for my power scheme. And then realized
it might have to do with the Screen Saver but I had no idea what to do
about it.

Thank you very much.
 
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