Abolishing the whole "Welcome Screen" thing in XP - reverting back to the
Windows 2000 (and NT) logon dialog box, may have the effect of not showing
the XP default pale-blue screens that display logon-status messages such as
"Applying your personal settings".

Also, you might try auto-login, if not already employed, this too may end
up by-passing the pale-blue logon screens.

From "Control Panel" "User Accounts" change the setting : "Change the
way users log on or off" and uncheck the box marked ; "Use the welcome
screen". This gets rid of the Welcome Screen. Obtain from :
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

As for employing "auto-logon" , you can either use the free XP download :
TweakUI.exe and under the heading "Logon" "Autologon" or you can
download the TechNet Sysinternals [free] app : "Autologon.exe" from :
http://live.sysinternals.com/Autologon.exe

Alternatively, copy the text below into Notepad and save as a [*.reg]
file - remembering to change the values for DefaultUserName,
DefaultDomainName and DefaultPassword (not encrypted) that I just filled in
with the words "User", "Domain" and "password" respectively...

------------------- copy between lines -------------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

"ForceAutoLogon"="1"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="User"
"DefaultDomainName"="Domain"
"DefaultPassword"="password"

------------------- copy between lines -------------------

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"DMD Italia" wrote in message
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Hi,
I am trying to boot into a minimal XP environment with no taskbar,
no boot logo etc. - I've been able to strip windows of everything but
that window that says "applying personal settings" everytime the user
(automatically) logs on.

Is there any way to get rid of it, even a dirty hack like making it
appear offscreen or whatever?
Thanks in advance

dmd