Eliminate password screen in 2000?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
I recently took XP Home off my Dell Latitude CPi-A366XT Pentium 2 w/192 MB memory and installed Windows 2000 Pro. It runs much better and smoother and faster. 17 processes compared to 29, 1.2 GB used space compared to 2.75 GB.

I didn't specify any user password. No critical information is kept on the laptop. Or my desktop system, for that matter.

But every time I start it up, it pops up the screen to enter a password. I just hit enter to skip it.

Is there anything I can do to make the password screen not come up at all?

And also, whenever I boot it up I get a DOS (black and white) screen asking if i want to boot Windows 2000 or Windows. I just hit enter there too. I'd like to skip that screen also if I can.

Comments

  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited December 2004
    Automated Login...

    If you have a Windows 2000 Professional computer that is not part of a domain structure, you can enable automatic logons easily (without editing the Registry). Go to Control Panel, and open the "Users and Passwords" applet. Clear the box next to "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer check box." You may also have to click the Advanced tab, and clear the box next to "Require users to press Ctrl-Alt-Del before logging on."
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited December 2004
    auto selecting OS to load...

    right click my computer and selet the properties.

    click the advanced tab

    click the startup and recovery button (3rd one down)

    change the "Time to display list of Operating systems to 1 and make sure the drop down box above that option shows the one you normally choose. Click apply and ok. clear out and reboot. The menu wont be gone, but it will auto choose for you in 1 second.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Okay, those things both worked.

    Here's another question that's a little more advanced. To me anyway. A local library has their new Dell Optiplex desktops with Windows 2000 Pro set up super-tight on security. Even the START button doesn't work! About all you can do on the computers is access the internet and Microsoft Word.

    Is there any way to break the security and access the control panel or start menu or things like that? I have a bootable CD of Knoppix 3.6, perhaps I could restart the computer on it and then be able to download a file to the hard drive?

    I wouldn't do anything bad to the computers, I'd just enjoy the challenge that it presents. To put one over on "the man". :thumbsup:
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited December 2004
    the address bar in IE might allow you to type in something like c:

    doenst seem right hacking a library computer though.

    If the file system is ntfs, you wont be able to write to it from knoppix

    ~dodo
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Well I'll be damned, typing c: in the address bar worked! Of course, I did it on my home desktop, which has no password / admin protection settings enabled on it.

    Windows 2000 Pro is NTFS.

    I don't have anything to actually put on the hard drive, I'd just like to see if I can get to it. Just for something to do.
  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited December 2004
    I like a challenge too, but I hate using computers that are so locked down that you really cannot use them. I'd rather read a long book instead. Heck, maybe you could get rid of the lock downs and make everyone happy... except for the librarians.
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