XP - Login Issue

[Femi]

I downloaded and Installed Windows update for WINNXP (Home
Edition). Upon completion of update, the computer
rebooted.
When XP came back on, I got the login page [To begin,
click username] But I did not get username & password
prompt.
Can you please help bring back Username & password prompt
so I can log in.

Many Thanks!

 

[Hannibal]

Home edition has no networking support.
You can set up different users on the PC itself, but there's no
network/domain you'll be able to log into.
Thank Microsoft for that bit of brilliance

Get XP Pro instead.

 

[purplehaz]

First, I think the op is saying that his user name doesn't show on the
welcome screen anymore. Second XP home is fully compatible with networking.
It can be networked in a workgroup environment. What xp home cannot do is
log into a domain, but it can be networked. And actaully it was very smart
of MS to do this seeing as how 99.9% of home users don't log into a domain
at home and xp home is made for home(not work, hence the name xp home),
there is no reason to have home be able to log into a domain. If you need to
log into a work domain then you get xp pro, designed for work environment
networks.

Home edition has no networking support.
You can set up different users on the PC itself, but there's no
network/domain you'll be able to log into.
Thank Microsoft for that bit of brilliance

Get XP Pro instead.

I downloaded and Installed Windows update for WINNXP (Home
Edition). Upon completion of update, the computer
rebooted.
When XP came back on, I got the login page [To begin,
click username] But I did not get username & password
prompt.
Can you please help bring back Username & password prompt
so I can log in.

Many Thanks!

 

[John Colombo]

I exclusively use XP Pro but I hope this applies to Home
edition also.

Click Start-->Control Panel--->User Accounts

The third option under "Pick a Task" should be "Change
the way users log on or off"

Make sure to uncheck both "Use the Welcome Screen"
and "Use Fast User Switching" - Click on the Apply
options button.

Please notify me if this has been of any assistance.

There

-----Original Message-----
Home edition has no networking support.
You can set up different users on the PC itself, but there's no
network/domain you'll be able to log into.
Thank Microsoft for that bit of brilliance

Get XP Pro instead.

I downloaded and Installed Windows update for WINNXP (Home
Edition). Upon completion of update, the computer
rebooted.
When XP came back on, I got the login page [To begin,
click username] But I did not get username & password
prompt.
Can you please help bring back Username & password prompt
so I can log in.

Many Thanks!

.

 

[Chris Hladky]

I can't test this where I am, but I think that when at
the screen to click the username, if you press ctrl-alt-
del it will give you the regular login prompt for that
session.

 

[Femi]

Thanks for all your help.. ctrl-alt-del gave me the
regular login prompt with my username: I got an error:
Invalid user account.
Is this common after upgrade Windows Update ? & do we know
why I did not get a normal password promppt.
Pls. help, I have a lot of data on the System. I hate to
rebuild the system since it seems I am locked out of the
sysstem.
**Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
I can't test this where I am, but I think that when at
the screen to click the username, if you press ctrl-alt-
del it will give you the regular login prompt for that
session.

-----Original Message-----
I downloaded and Installed Windows update for WINNXP (Home
Edition). Upon completion of update, the computer
rebooted.
When XP came back on, I got the login page [To begin,
click username] But I did not get username & password
prompt.
Can you please help bring back Username & password prompt
so I can log in.

Many Thanks!
.

.

 

[Ken Blake]

Home edition has no networking support.
You can set up different users on the PC itself, but there's no
network/domain you'll be able to log into.
Thank Microsoft for that bit of brilliance

This is completely false. Windows XP Home edition does just fine
on Peer-to-Peer networks. It can't join a domain, but that's a
very different statement from "Home edition has no networking
support."