No - certainly, a profile *must* exist before you can logon to it!

I have never heard said what Mr Phillipson mentioned, but believe he was
saying that if you leave the login box blank it would then defer to the
"Administrator" account - or so it seemed to me anyway....

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




"William Lurie" wrote in message
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Don Phillipson wrote:
"William Lurie" wrote in message
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By adding and validating a Key in Registry, we have been able to change
the Welcome Screen during Start-up so that it halts there, and allows
one to enter a User Name. I seem to recall from years ago, with XP/Pro,
that the option for an Administrator account there, but I've been
unable
to do so with XP/Home. Is it that it cannot be done, or that I'm not
doing it right? We are aware of F8 and Safe Mode, but that leads in an
entirely different direction.

Were this true (not checked) provision to add an Admin account at
login seems redundant -- since the OS enables any reboot to start
an Admin account (by Ctl-Alt-Del twice at login prompt we need
not provide a user name for such access.

What you seem to be saying is that I can *create* a new account (e.g.,
'Administrator') by indicating that name in the login box. I hadn't tried
that.