Uninstall Network Sign on.

[Guest]

I lost my DSL internet connection on my wireless network. While working on
the problem, I installed Microsoft Client for Networks, Client option, and it
appears to have set me up for a Server and I now get a sign on window during
boot up. I want to uninstall this, to get rid of the sign on and back to just
having my wireless setup. I have uninstalled the network components in
Windows Setup and Microsoft Client for Networks with Printer and File Sharing
from my Network Connection and then installed them again. But this doesn't
get rid of the Server setup and the Sign On window. An uninstall and new
install of my wireless card drivers and utility returned my DSL internet
connection.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I lost my DSL internet connection on my wireless network. While working on
the problem, I installed Microsoft Client for Networks, Client option, and it
appears to have set me up for a Server and I now get a sign on window during
boot up. I want to uninstall this, to get rid of the sign on and back to just
having my wireless setup. I have uninstalled the network components in
Windows Setup and Microsoft Client for Networks with Printer and File Sharing
from my Network Connection and then installed them again. But this doesn't
get rid of the Server setup and the Sign On window. An uninstall and new
install of my wireless card drivers and utility returned my DSL internet
connection.

What client did you install?

"Client for Microsoft Networks" shouldn't cause a network sign-on
window. If you installed "Client Service for NetWare", un-install it,
because it isn't needed.

Have you created more than one user account? If so, it's normal to
have a sign-on window, but it shouldn't say anything about a network.

This is a Windows XP computer, isn't it? Windows 95/98/Me work
differently.

If those suggestions don't help, please reply to this message in the
news group (not by E-mail) with more information to help other people
understand the problem.

1. What do you mean by "Server setup"? What tells you that your
computer is a server?

2. What is the complete and exact text of the sign-on window?
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[Guest]

I picked Client to install from the list of Client, Services and Protacol and
this apparently setup XP Pro for a network server system. This brings up the
sign on window after the black Windows boot up window finishes. It changes
the Turn Off Computer window too, allows log off of network to go to regular
desktop. Both the sign on window and log off, shut down, restart windows are
smallish and colored light blue. The sign off has a scroll bar and text
selection over the regular icon or buttons of the normal windows Turn Off
Computer. I have only one User Account, just to avoid sign ons. My problem
seems to be in finding the Netware Network setup to uninstall or delete it.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I picked Client to install from the list of Client, Services and Protacol and
this apparently setup XP Pro for a network server system. This brings up the
sign on window after the black Windows boot up window finishes. It changes
the Turn Off Computer window too, allows log off of network to go to regular
desktop. Both the sign on window and log off, shut down, restart windows are
smallish and colored light blue. The sign off has a scroll bar and text
selection over the regular icon or buttons of the normal windows Turn Off
Computer. I have only one User Account, just to avoid sign ons. My problem
seems to be in finding the Netware Network setup to uninstall or delete it.

I'm sorry, but I still don't know what has happened. Please answer
these questions:

1. What is the complete and exact text of the sign-on window -- every
single word in it, including the title bar, buttons, etc?

2. In the Network Connections folder, right-click your local area
network connection and click Properties. What are all of the items
listed under "This connection uses the following items"? You might
have to use the scroll bar to see them all.
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[Guest]

Steve, again, from my wireless connection I chose properties. I chose
Microsoft Client for networks and chose the install button, which brought up
the three items, client, services and protocol. Then I picked add for client
and after that I have gotten the sign on at boot up and the changed Turn
Computer Off. I think that XP looked at my wireless network as a LAN. This is
the same situation I dealt with at a place I worked at, and they had a server
based LAN. I can't find anyway to uninstall or delete this, I have no need to
sign on to any network, but there is no uninstall in the Microsoft Client for
networks and nothing I have done in Windows setup and the network module have
taken care of this. Before this, with my single user account, I just booted
to my desktop without any other action needed. I think I may have goofed when
setting up the wireless network from the network wizard, but I chose the
option for DSL phone or cable to a router. I believe this should have set me
up for a wireless connection.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Steve, again, from my wireless connection I chose properties. I chose
Microsoft Client for networks and chose the install button, which brought up
the three items, client, services and protocol. Then I picked add for client
and after that I have gotten the sign on at boot up and the changed Turn
Computer Off. I think that XP looked at my wireless network as a LAN. This is
the same situation I dealt with at a place I worked at, and they had a server
based LAN. I can't find anyway to uninstall or delete this, I have no need to
sign on to any network, but there is no uninstall in the Microsoft Client for
networks and nothing I have done in Windows setup and the network module have
taken care of this. Before this, with my single user account, I just booted
to my desktop without any other action needed. I think I may have goofed when
setting up the wireless network from the network wizard, but I chose the
option for DSL phone or cable to a router. I believe this should have set me
up for a wireless connection.

A wireless network is a LAN (local area network). There are also
wired LANs.

Bunkey, I'd like to help you solve the problem. Please answer the
questions that I've been asking you:

1. What is the complete and exact text of the sign-on window -- every
single word in it, including the title bar, buttons, etc?

2. In the Network Connections folder, right-click your local area
network connection (or wireless connection) and click Properties.
What are all of the items listed under "This connection uses the
following items"? You might have to use the scroll bar to see them
all.

I'm sorry, but I without that information, there's nothing more that I
can do.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

Steve: The sign on window is smallish light blue colored with XP Windows logo
and asks for a password and white text bar area for entering. The logoff
window is the same with with a click on to open scroll list of log off, my
user account name, restart and shut down. I have a motherboard Gigabit LAN
eithernet connection, that I keep disabled. It displays the same items as my
wireless connections. Under my wireless connection, a Netgear PCI card, in
Properties, the Client for Microsoft Networks displays, under its Properties,
RPC Service and the service option is Windows Locator. Next is File and
Printer Sharing for Microsoft Windows and no properties to access. Next is
AEGIS Protocol (IEEE 802.1x) V2.3.19, again no properties to access, I
believe wireless card driver. Last is Internet Protocol TC/IP, under
Properties the selection of IP and DNS addresses configuration and selecting
DHCP and so forth. Nothing else is displayed then the items detailed. I have
two 1394 connections for Firewire connectors and a dialup connection and none
of them reveals any items then what is mentioned above, no netware or
different, strange, network drivers, just TC/IP and File and Printer Sharing

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Steve: The sign on window is smallish light blue colored with XP Windows logo
and asks for a password and white text bar area for entering. The logoff
window is the same with with a click on to open scroll list of log off, my
user account name, restart and shut down. I have a motherboard Gigabit LAN
eithernet connection, that I keep disabled. It displays the same items as my
wireless connections. Under my wireless connection, a Netgear PCI card, in
Properties, the Client for Microsoft Networks displays, under its Properties,
RPC Service and the service option is Windows Locator. Next is File and
Printer Sharing for Microsoft Windows and no properties to access. Next is
AEGIS Protocol (IEEE 802.1x) V2.3.19, again no properties to access, I
believe wireless card driver. Last is Internet Protocol TC/IP, under
Properties the selection of IP and DNS addresses configuration and selecting
DHCP and so forth. Nothing else is displayed then the items detailed. I have
two 1394 connections for Firewire connectors and a dialup connection and none
of them reveals any items then what is mentioned above, no netware or
different, strange, network drivers, just TC/IP and File and Printer Sharing
on the 1394s and modem configuration for the dialup..

Thanks very much for the details.

There's no evidence of any network client other than the usual Client
for Microsoft Networks.

Does the sign-on window say "Log On to Windows" at the top and include
buttons labeled "OK" and "Options"?

Does the logoff window say "Shut Down Windows" at the top and have
buttons labeled "OK", "Cancel", and "Help"?

If the answer to those questions is "Yes", then here's a probable
solution to the problem:

1. Click Start | Control Panel | User Accounts.
2. Click "Change the way users log on or off".
3. Put a check mark in the box "Use the Welcome screen".
4. Click "Apply Options".

Actually, those steps are worth trying even if the windows on your
computer don't look exactly like I described.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

Steve, we really seem to have a communications problem here. Again, the sign
on window has a light blue background and XP Pro Windows logo, I just noticed
after my last reply, it has a white text bar with my user account name, just
above the blank text bar asking for password. As I recall, it has an OK
button, a cancel button and an options button. This answers your item one.
Item two is answered in detail in the previous reply, all connections display
under, This connection uses the following items, Microsoft Client for
Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks and Internet
Protocol TC/IP with the addition of the AEGIS item on my wireless connection
and that is all. I just found out, that Task Manager has been altered to a
light blue background like the sign on and Turn Your Computer Off window. It
has two rows of buttons on the bottom, which are Shutdown, Network, Lock the
Computer, Change Pass Word, Cancel, Logoff and Task Manager at the very top
of this window in a blue border area, it says Windows Security. As I said,
several times, I haven't found the area for the network files or whatever,
that the client option loaded, added, to Windows from the Microsoft Client
for Networks, that was in my Wireless Connection. As I said before, it was
after I did this, that all these changes happened.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Steve, we really seem to have a communications problem here.

Yes, it seems that we do. I'm asking my questions as clearly as I
can. You're not answering the questions that I'm asking. I don't
know what else I can do.

Again, the sign
on window has a light blue background and XP Pro Windows logo, I just noticed
after my last reply, it has a white text bar with my user account name, just
above the blank text bar asking for password. As I recall, it has an OK
button, a cancel button and an options button. This answers your item one.

So the answer to my latest item 1 appears to be "Yes".

Item two is answered in detail in the previous reply, all connections display
under, This connection uses the following items, Microsoft Client for
Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks and Internet
Protocol TC/IP with the addition of the AEGIS item on my wireless connection
and that is all.

I don't think that you've answered my latest item 2 at all. I asked
you what the logoff window looks like. You didn't answer that
question. Instead, you repeated the answer to an earlier question
about network connections.

What does the logoff window look like? Does it look like I described?
If so, the answer to my latest item 2 is "Yes".

I just found out, that Task Manager has been altered to a
light blue background like the sign on and Turn Your Computer Off window. It
has two rows of buttons on the bottom, which are Shutdown, Network, Lock the
Computer, Change Pass Word, Cancel, Logoff and Task Manager at the very top
of this window in a blue border area, it says Windows Security.

Yes, that's exactly what will happen if the "Use the Welcome screen"
box is un-checked.

As I said,
several times, I haven't found the area for the network files or whatever,
that the client option loaded, added, to Windows from the Microsoft Client
for Networks, that was in my Wireless Connection. As I said before, it was
after I did this, that all these changes happened.

I don't think that what has happened has anything to do with the
network components for your wireless connection or any other network
connection. Please forget about network connections.

Did you try the probable solution to the problem that I gave you? If
so, did it work? If not, PLEASE TRY IT ! I'm 99.999% sure that it
will fix the problem:

1. Click Start | Control Panel | User Accounts.
2. Click "Change the way users log on or off".
3. Put a check mark in the box "Use the Welcome screen".
4. Click "Apply Options".

I've now done everything that I possibly can to help you.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

I found out what is causing the changes and actions of my system. In User
Accounts, I went into Change the way users log on and off. I unchecked
(cleared) the Use the Welcome Window, this uses a Windows Classic mode, that
requires log on and offs, all the time. Selecting the option brings back the
XP Pro mode, which allows with one user to go to the desktop without any
other action. This was something I changed at some point with my problem on
my wireless connection.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I found out what is causing the changes and actions of my system. In User
Accounts, I went into Change the way users log on and off. I unchecked
(cleared) the Use the Welcome Window, this uses a Windows Classic mode, that
requires log on and offs, all the time. Selecting the option brings back the
XP Pro mode, which allows with one user to go to the desktop without any
other action. This was something I changed at some point with my problem on
my wireless connection.

You're welcome. I gave you that solution in two previous messages.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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