Re: Re: Help - Suddenly I stop at the Welcome Screen

[young@restless.com]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:23:30 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
> wrote:

>CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2


This just made things worse, or should i just say awful.

It eliminated the welcome screen and the required step to select the
user (me), but the resulting desktop is completely devoid of all the
short-cut icons I had previously for me. I guess because the system
came up with plain old administrator as the user instead of me.

For clarity, my login was 'young' with no password. Originally, XP
booted up with no intervention required and stayed that way for 20
days. Then suddenly this AM, the boot up stopped at the welcome
screen requiring me to select 'young' as the user. Which I did and
all was okay - I had all the desktop icons - I just wanted to
eliminate the wasteful intervention. Un checking the box as you
suggested eliminated the intervention just fine, but I now do not come
up as 'young'. I went back and checked the box again and the next
boot stopped as before, but when I entered 'young', I got all my
desktop icons back.

Now then, I'll not worry right now how all this happened in the first
place, but how do I set my boot up so I come up as 'young'
automatically?

BTW, when I enter your CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, I see four users =

Administrator Administrators
ASPNET Users
YOUNG Administrators
Guest Guests

Thanks

[Russ]

Hi, I might suggest you download and install TWeakUI for
XP, There is a setting there for automatic logon and you
can set it for who you like to auto logon. I,m sure
someone will have the time to solve this problem, but
this is the simplest for now.
>-----Original Message-----
>On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:23:30 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
> wrote:
>
>>CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
>
>
>This just made things worse, or should i just say awful.
>
>It eliminated the welcome screen and the required step
to select the
>user (me), but the resulting desktop is completely
devoid of all the
>short-cut icons I had previously for me. I guess
because the system
>came up with plain old administrator as the user instead
of me.
>
>For clarity, my login was 'young' with no password.
Originally, XP
>booted up with no intervention required and stayed that
way for 20
>days. Then suddenly this AM, the boot up stopped at the
welcome
>screen requiring me to select 'young' as the user.
Which I did and
>all was okay - I had all the desktop icons - I just
wanted to
>eliminate the wasteful intervention. Un checking the
box as you
>suggested eliminated the intervention just fine, but I
now do not come
>up as 'young'. I went back and checked the box again
and the next
>boot stopped as before, but when I entered 'young', I
got all my
>desktop icons back.
>
>Now then, I'll not worry right now how all this
happened in the first
>place, but how do I set my boot up so I come up
as 'young'
>automatically?
>
>BTW, when I enter your CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, I see
four users =
>
>Administrator Administrators
>ASPNET Users
>YOUNG Administrators
>Guest Guests
>
>Thanks
>.
>

[Russ]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:138391

TWEAKUI.EXE,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys
..asp
>-----Original Message-----
>On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:23:30 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
> wrote:
>
>>CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
>
>
>This just made things worse, or should i just say awful.
>
>It eliminated the welcome screen and the required step
to select the
>user (me), but the resulting desktop is completely
devoid of all the
>short-cut icons I had previously for me. I guess
because the system
>came up with plain old administrator as the user instead
of me.
>
>For clarity, my login was 'young' with no password.
Originally, XP
>booted up with no intervention required and stayed that
way for 20
>days. Then suddenly this AM, the boot up stopped at the
welcome
>screen requiring me to select 'young' as the user.
Which I did and
>all was okay - I had all the desktop icons - I just
wanted to
>eliminate the wasteful intervention. Un checking the
box as you
>suggested eliminated the intervention just fine, but I
now do not come
>up as 'young'. I went back and checked the box again
and the next
>boot stopped as before, but when I entered 'young', I
got all my
>desktop icons back.
>
>Now then, I'll not worry right now how all this
happened in the first
>place, but how do I set my boot up so I come up
as 'young'
>automatically?
>
>BTW, when I enter your CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, I see
four users =
>
>Administrator Administrators
>ASPNET Users
>YOUNG Administrators
>Guest Guests
>
>Thanks
>.
>

[young@restless.com]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:37:47 -0700, "Russ" > wrote:

>Hi, I might suggest you download and install TWeakUI for
>XP, There is a setting there for automatic logon and you
>can set it for who you like to auto logon. I,m sure
>someone will have the time to solve this problem, but
>this is the simplest for now.
>>-----Original Message-----


TweakXP did it. Thanks.

Now if I can only remember to do that when this 'up jumped the devil'
hic-cup happens again! Should I ask how this happened in the first
place?


>>
>>Thanks
>>.
>>

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Why download what you can do from the GUI?

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
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ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
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"Russ" > wrote in message
...
> TWEAKUI.EXE,
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys
> .asp
> >-----Original Message-----
> >On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:23:30 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
> > wrote:
> >
> >>CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
> >
> >
> >This just made things worse, or should i just say awful.
> >
> >It eliminated the welcome screen and the required step
> to select the
> >user (me), but the resulting desktop is completely
> devoid of all the
> >short-cut icons I had previously for me. I guess
> because the system
> >came up with plain old administrator as the user instead
> of me.
> >
> >For clarity, my login was 'young' with no password.
> Originally, XP
> >booted up with no intervention required and stayed that
> way for 20
> >days. Then suddenly this AM, the boot up stopped at the
> welcome
> >screen requiring me to select 'young' as the user.
> Which I did and
> >all was okay - I had all the desktop icons - I just
> wanted to
> >eliminate the wasteful intervention. Un checking the
> box as you
> >suggested eliminated the intervention just fine, but I
> now do not come
> >up as 'young'. I went back and checked the box again
> and the next
> >boot stopped as before, but when I entered 'young', I
> got all my
> >desktop icons back.
> >
> >Now then, I'll not worry right now how all this
> happened in the first
> >place, but how do I set my boot up so I come up
> as 'young'
> >automatically?
> >
> >BTW, when I enter your CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, I see
> four users =
> >
> >Administrator Administrators
> >ASPNET Users
> >YOUNG Administrators
> >Guest Guests
> >
> >Thanks
> >.
> >

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

As long as you enter the correct information when you were prompted for a
username and password, i.e. the user name you wanted automatically logged
on, and left the password (in this case) blank, it should have logged you on
to that account. This setting in CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 does the same
thing and changes the same settings as the Autologon feature of TweakUI.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Associate Expert
ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

> wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:23:30 -0400, "Doug Knox MS-MVP"
> > wrote:
>
> >CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
>
>
> This just made things worse, or should i just say awful.
>
> It eliminated the welcome screen and the required step to select the
> user (me), but the resulting desktop is completely devoid of all the
> short-cut icons I had previously for me. I guess because the system
> came up with plain old administrator as the user instead of me.
>
> For clarity, my login was 'young' with no password. Originally, XP
> booted up with no intervention required and stayed that way for 20
> days. Then suddenly this AM, the boot up stopped at the welcome
> screen requiring me to select 'young' as the user. Which I did and
> all was okay - I had all the desktop icons - I just wanted to
> eliminate the wasteful intervention. Un checking the box as you
> suggested eliminated the intervention just fine, but I now do not come
> up as 'young'. I went back and checked the box again and the next
> boot stopped as before, but when I entered 'young', I got all my
> desktop icons back.
>
> Now then, I'll not worry right now how all this happened in the first
> place, but how do I set my boot up so I come up as 'young'
> automatically?
>
> BTW, when I enter your CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2, I see four users =
>
> Administrator Administrators
> ASPNET Users
> YOUNG Administrators
> Guest Guests
>
> Thanks