xp home trys to logon itself with weird password

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when starting up , my sons pc now gets to logon screen and puts masses of
*'s in the password box, i have to backspace 50+ times to clear it to allow
me to enter single administrator password to logon succesfully.There are no
other user accounts set up and i have tried adding another administrator,
deleting the first and altering the password but on reboot password b0x is
filled with *'s again which have to be cleared out. This happens even after
re installing "clean image" of drive using drive image. (have also re flashed
bios) run out of ideas can anyonone offer any help please

 

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when starting up , my sons pc now gets to logon screen and puts masses
of
*'s in the password box, i have to backspace 50+ times to clear it to
allow
me to enter single administrator password to logon succesfully.There
are no
other user accounts set up and i have tried adding another
administrator,
deleting the first and altering the password but on reboot password
b0x is
filled with *'s again which have to be cleared out. This happens even
after
re installing "clean image" of drive using drive image. (have also re
flashed
bios) run out of ideas can anyonone offer any help please

Apparently you have configured Windows to auto-login. The auto-login
was also configured when you created the partition image so you get back
what you had setup before. So don't auto-login (and enter whatever got
recorded as the password which creates all those asterisks). Get
TweakUI powertoy from Microsoft and use it to *disable* auto-login to
see if the Windows startup stops at the login screen and waits for you
to enter a username and password.

If it is your computer, why does your son or anyone else have an account
with admin privileges? It is either your computer or you have
surrendered it to him so he can install, tweak, or do whatever whim he
happens to fancy. The "Administrator" account is NOT to be used by any
user logging onto the computer. It is the emergency account that you
don't touch until you have to. If you want an admin account for your
computer, create a new account as your primary admin account and leave
the Administrator account alone. If you screw up the Administrator
account and if it is your only admin account then what are you going to
do when you cannot login under that account?