Welcome Screen

[someone]

Following a tip in one of the posts here, I ran "CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2" so
that the Welcome Screen in my Windows XP Pro would not flash after the
boot-up. (The Windows XP Pro was the OS a technician placed in my computer
in place of my former ME which became unbootable. I don't have the CD, and
apparently he uses the XP Pro to put on different puters.) Anyway, I found
that the "use password for log on" was checked but that no password was
used. The aforesaid tip said to uncheck the need for the password. So I
added a password but unchecked the password box. Now when I boot up I get
two additional messages that I did not get before. One said that I was
unable to log on and to be sure that I used the proper case in my password
(I never was prompted to use a password.) I checked OK, the box disappeared
and the underlying box asked me to state who was logging on, the
administrator or me. I checked me, and then I got my usual welcome screen.
This is no big deal, but I'd like to at least get back to where I was
before.

 

[Grok]

someone wrote:
| Following a tip in one of the posts here, I ran "CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2"
| so that the Welcome Screen in my Windows XP Pro would not flash after the
| boot-up. (The Windows XP Pro was the OS a technician placed in my
| computer in place of my former ME which became unbootable. I don't have
| the CD, and apparently he uses the XP Pro to put on different puters.)
| Anyway, I found that the "use password for log on" was checked but that
| no password was used. The aforesaid tip said to uncheck the need for the
| password. So I added a password but unchecked the password box. Now
| when I boot up I get two additional messages that I did not get before.
| One said that I was unable to log on and to be sure that I used the
| proper case in my password (I never was prompted to use a password.) I
| checked OK, the box disappeared and the underlying box asked me to state
| who was logging on, the administrator or me. I checked me, and then I
| got my usual welcome screen. This is no big deal, but I'd like to at
| least get back to where I was before.

With TweakUI for XP [available as no-cost download from Microsoft's website]
you can set it so that Windows automatically logs you on.