Ahh, I remember now, the message you mention is not on the pale-blue
screen, but on a very small "banner" with a progress "style" bar that
cycles a grey/orange line showing that the load hasn't frozen while the
line colors continue to cycle. Am I right about that?

I have seen this on XP "Classic Logon" (as I have always used the "Welcome
Screen" myself) and is, by default, what is displayed when Windows 2000
logs on.

This is a feature that cannot be turned off, I fear, and I think you are
just going to have to put up with it.

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




"DMD Italia" wrote in message
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Hello.
Thank you for your help! But, unluckily, I already bypassed the pale
blue "welcome" screen by setting up an autologon user.

Nonetheless, there's still an annoyance: a dialog window which appears
for five-ten seconds, which states "applying user settings"...
"preparing desktop" etc.

This is the last piece I am trying to hide/strip out.