Welcome Screen Question

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Thomas M.

Windows XP Pro SP3

I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She likes
the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen and Fast
User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I would like to
lock her down to a standard user account. However, I find that when I
remove her account from the local Administrators group, it no longer
appears as one of the options on the Welcome screen. If I add the
account back to the local Administrators group, it reappears on the
Welcome screen.

Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

Thanks for any help that you can offer.

--Tom
 
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Windows XP Pro SP3

I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She likes
the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen and Fast
User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I would like to
lock her down to a standard user account. However, I find that when I
remove her account from the local Administrators group, it no longer
appears as one of the options on the Welcome screen. If I add the
account back to the local Administrators group, it reappears on the
Welcome screen.

Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

Thanks for any help that you can offer.

--Tom
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Is the account a member of at least one other group ?

Bernd
 
Thomas said:
Windows XP Pro SP3

I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She
likes the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen
and Fast User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I
would like to lock her down to a standard user account. However, I
find that when I remove her account from the local Administrators
group, it no longer appears as one of the options on the Welcome
screen. If I add the account back to the local Administrators group,
it reappears on the Welcome screen.

Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

Thanks for any help that you can offer.
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This is typical behavior whenever you are in Safe Mode. If you are not
in Safe Mode, perhaps the profile is corrupted. Why not set up a new
profile?
 
This is typical behavior whenever you are in Safe Mode. If you are not
in Safe Mode, perhaps the profile is corrupted. Why not set up a new
profile?
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Thanks for the reply.

I am not in Safe Mode. I have two other profiles that I have used for
testing, all the behavior is the same on all of them--if I remove the
account from the local Administrators group it disappears from the
Welcome screen. Everything else is working fine.

I'm working with a new hard drive and a fresh build of Windows from
scratch, all patched up to date. Also, I am not using any boot managers
or anything of that sort. It's just your average plain vanilla single
OS system.

--Tom
 
Thomas said:
Thanks for the reply.

I am not in Safe Mode. I have two other profiles that I have used for
testing, all the behavior is the same on all of them--if I remove the
account from the local Administrators group it disappears from the
Welcome screen. Everything else is working fine.

I'm working with a new hard drive and a fresh build of Windows from
scratch, all patched up to date. Also, I am not using any boot
managers or anything of that sort. It's just your average plain
vanilla single OS system.
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Perhaps this post will help, Tom:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin/msg/624de7857d121459?hl=en
 
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