Windows XP Pro SP2 logon screen after resume from hibernate

[isme4sure]

I have two Windows XP Pro machines both running SP2, a laptop and a desktop
machine. What puzzles me is that on my laptop I get two different screens
when I rebot my machine after it was hibernated.

On my laptop the typical XP play-dough logon screen appears. It shows me
which user has currently how many apps running and gives me an option to
logon as a different user.

On my desktop I get a simple dialog box that tells me that unly user X or
and administrator can unlock this computer. Here, I guess user X is the user
who requested the computer to hibernate.

I would like my desktop to behave like my laptop, what do I need to do?

Cheers
Pete

 

[isme4sure]

What puzzles me is that on my laptop I get two different screens
when I rebot my machine after it was hibernated.

Sorry, but the above should have read:

What puzzles me is that I get a different behavior on the two machine when I
restart them from hibernate.

Also, the real problem is that other, non-administrator users should be able
to use the desktop machine so they should have the ability to start a session
when firing up the PC even though another user might have put the machine
into the hibernate state. This works on the laptop but not on the desktop.

Pete

 

[gsjutla]

The logon screen is shown by the gina setting under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GinaDLL

In your case instead of msgina.dll some third party gina may be in use for
your laptop. For security and stability it is recomended that you stick with
the MSGina.

 

[isme4sure]

The logon screen is shown by the gina setting under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GinaDLL

Firstly, many thanks for your help Gurpreet.

I found the problem although it had nothing to do with Gina DLL. In fact, on
my system I neither have such a value or folder under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.

However, thanks to your reply I was able to compare the settings between the
two machines and I found that the culprit was
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AllowMultipleTSSessions which was set to 0 on my
workstation and the reason why only an administrator or the user who was
logged in at the time the system was set to hibernate could unlock the
machine.

After changing this setting to 1, I got the same login screen on both
machines.

Again, thanks for your help.
Pete

 

[Gary Brandenburg]

I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but I believe you can achieve the
same results in : Control Panel/Power Options/Advanced & uncheck the box by "Prompt
for password when computer resumes from standby"

~Gary

 

[isme4sure]

I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but I believe you can achieve the
same results in : Control Panel/Power Options/Advanced & uncheck the box by "Prompt
for password when computer resumes from standby"

I don't think so Garry. The AllowMultipleTSSessions registry setting
controls whether or not built in Terminal Server can create multiple sessions
or not. This is also known as "Fast User Switching".

One thing people who read this and fiddle with this setting show know though
is that if this setting also appears under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

it will take precendence over the value set in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

AFAIK, there is no built in XP UI gadget to change this setting - ver y
strange really.

Pete