XP Home startup issue

[Art Shotwell]

My wife's laptop, running XP Home, has suddenly started requiring her to
view what is, I guess, the Windows Welcome screen. It is now forcing her
to click on her name to get Windows started. Until I installed
QuickBooks 2006 a few days ago, all she had to do was turn her laptop on
and bingo, well, eventually, the Windows desktop was there.

I have the same version of QuickBooks installed on my PC and am not
required to go through extraneous steps to get to Windows desktop. She
finds this new step a pain, and frankly, I find it annoying that things
change without any user input. And, I find it annoying to add steps to
do the same thing.

Anyone have any idea how to undo this???

Art

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My wife's laptop, running XP Home, has suddenly started requiring her
to view what is, I guess, the Windows Welcome screen. It is now
forcing her to click on her name to get Windows started. Until I
installed QuickBooks 2006 a few days ago, all she had to do was turn
her laptop on and bingo, well, eventually, the Windows desktop was
there.

Go to start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a user
name and password to use this computer."

Or do the same thing with TweakUI.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The Welcome to Windows screen appears when you start
Windows XP after you install the .NET Framework 1.1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827072/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| My wife's laptop, running XP Home, has suddenly started requiring her to
| view what is, I guess, the Windows Welcome screen. It is now forcing her
| to click on her name to get Windows started. Until I installed
| QuickBooks 2006 a few days ago, all she had to do was turn her laptop on
| and bingo, well, eventually, the Windows desktop was there.
|
| I have the same version of QuickBooks installed on my PC and am not
| required to go through extraneous steps to get to Windows desktop. She
| finds this new step a pain, and frankly, I find it annoying that things
| change without any user input. And, I find it annoying to add steps to
| do the same thing.
|
| Anyone have any idea how to undo this???
|
| Art