XP Home won't show welcome screen after screensaver

[Gary R.]

I did an install of XP home with my son as the only user, so it booted up
fine with no login screen. We decided to add the guest account and have his
account PW protected to limit what others can do while he's away, so I
enabled the guest account and clicked the two checkboxes for showing the
welcome screen and fast user switching (actually they were already checked,
I assume when I added the guest account).

When I rebooted, it still did not show the welcome screen, it simply booted
to his account. So I added the password, rebooted, and it then did show the
welcome screen with his account and the guest account.

But the screensaver tab does not show the option of using the login screen;
instead it says "on resume password protect". If I check that box, it shows
the old type small windows login box with his name in it instead of the XP
screen with all the users (hence no option for guest account). According to
the Help subject, with fast user switching enabled, it should show "on
resume, show welcome screen" but it doesn't.

I also noticed that when booting, the welcome screen comes up with the
password box already showing and the cursor in the box by his name; my XP
Pro machines come up with all users showing, but no specific one selected.
This is not really a problem, but I'm not sure if this is normal or related
to the other problem.

So we need to get the XP type welcome screen working after a screensaver
comes on. Any ideas will be appreciated, registry fixes fine, whatever it
takes, except hopefully not major; this is a clean install and everything
else is working great. Thanks.

Gary

 

[Gary R.]

Fixed. I added another administrator account and logged in. The correct
option then appeared on the screensaver tab to resume to the welcome screen.
Sort of repaired itself, but only after adding the other account.

Gary