Win XP Login/task manager behavior

[3D Master]

Hello,

Windows XP standard has XP startup/login behavior: nice welcome screen with
squares to click for different accounts. If you have but one account, it
automatically starts up. When in windows you hold down ctrl+alt+del you get
the task manager. Recently, after I installed a piece of software, it for no
reason switched to Win2000/NT 4.0 behavior. Ctrl+alt+del kicks you out of
the main windows screen to pull up some weird dialog box from which you have
to choose task manager to get to it, along with five other, pretty useless
options. Starting up you get a dialog box with your account name and
password even if you have no password installed, halting the startup until
you push Enter.

Does anyone have any idea where you can set this back to its basic XP
behavior?


3D Master

 

[Nepatsfan]

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Hello,

Windows XP standard has XP startup/login behavior: nice
welcome
screen with squares to click for different accounts. If you
have but
one account, it automatically starts up. When in windows you
hold
down ctrl+alt+del you get the task manager. Recently, after I
installed a piece of software, it for no reason switched to
Win2000/NT 4.0 behavior. Ctrl+alt+del kicks you out of the
main
windows screen to pull up some weird dialog box from which
you have
to choose task manager to get to it, along with five other,
pretty
useless options. Starting up you get a dialog box with your
account
name and password even if you have no password installed,
halting the
startup until you push Enter.
Does anyone have any idea where you can set this back to its
basic XP
behavior?


3D Master

To restore the Welcome Screen, do the following;

Go to Start -> Control Panel and double click User Accounts.
In User Accounts, click on "Change the way users log on or
off".
Under "Select logon and logoff options", check "Use the Welcome
screen".
Note: You can also check "Use Fast User Switching".
Hit the Apply Options button.
Restart your computer to see if you get the desired results.

If you get an error message when you try to enable the Welcome
screen, take a look at this article to see if it applies to
your situation.

Error Message When You Try to Turn On Welcome Screen or Fast
User Switching
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315347

Finally, here are two options to restore the automatic logon.

1. Download and install TweakUI from Microsoft. TweakUI is
available here.

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Direct Download of TweakUI
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Once the program is installed, go to Start -> All Programs ->
Powertoys for Windows XP -> TweakUI.
Click the + sign next to Logon in the left hand column.
Click on Autologon.
In the right hand pane, put a check mark in the box next to
"Logon automatically at system startup".
Enter the name of your user account in the User Name box.
Hit the Set Password button and enter your password twice.
Note: You should skip this step if your account has a blank
password.
Click OK to close TweakUI.
Restart your computer to see if you get the desired results.

2. Go to Start -> Run.
Copy and paste the following into the Open box:

control userpasswords2

Click OK.
In the "Users for this computer" box, click on the account you
want to have logged on automatically.
Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer".
Click OK.
In the box that pops up, make sure the account you clicked on
earlier is entered next to User Name.
Enter your password twice.
Note: You can leave the password box blank if the account does
not have a password.
Click OK.
Reboot to see if you get the desired results.

For more info take a look here,

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Configure Windows XP to Automatically Login
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan