Windows XP welcome screen

iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
edited August 2005 in Science & Tech
I've got this prob now on my PC which is the Windows XP welcome screen doesn't show whenever i turn the PC on. I've tried creating multiple user accounts on XP but it doesn't work. And i've got the option 'Display welcome screen on startup' checked. It seems to log on automatically to the very 1st admin account that is created when i first installed XP. Anyone help?

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  • djstubbsdjstubbs NJ
    edited August 2005
    Create a password for the account, if you dont, it will most likely login to the default acct.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    Are you using TweakUI? One of it's features is a way to automatically log you on to a particular account at startup.
  • iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
    edited August 2005
    I've tried adding passwords, but no effect. What's TweakUI? Any way i can check if i have that?
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited August 2005
    1: If you're comfortable using regeditor:

    Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

    change the value of "AutoAdminLogon" to "0"

    2: If not, create a new text file and copy and paste this into it:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
    "AutoAdminLogon"="0"

    save the file as 'noautologin.reg'

    double click the file

    say yes to the prompt.
  • iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
    edited August 2005
    What the hell?????? I did what you told me, and the welcome screen is ok. Now i've got a bigger problem. The other admin account is gone, and so are my files in that account! But they're still taking up space in my hard disk! HOW CAN I RETRIEVE THEM?? I'VE GOT SCHOOLWORK, PROJECTS AND SONGS IN THERE!! PLS HELP!!!!
  • JonseyJonsey Microsoft Corporation
    edited August 2005
    Go to Start, then Log-Off, or if you don't have that, shutdown then choose the log-off option.

    This should either bring you to a welcome screen, or a Win2k style login prompt.

    You can use the username Administrator (or whatever you saved the files under) and no password.

    If you're really running as Administrator without any password set as your default setup, please strip your machine down for components, and sell them off in the deal depot, as you probably have no business running a computer :p : )
  • iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
    edited August 2005
    Well, the thing is, under documents and settings, the Administrator folder is there, but it seems like it's empty and not accessible. Still, there's like 6gb unaccounted for in my pc...
  • iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
    edited August 2005
    whew...ok...i got in...so now what do i do? i mean...how can i make the administrator account appear in the welcome screen?
  • JonseyJonsey Microsoft Corporation
    edited August 2005
    I forget the method off hand, but ditch the welcome screen... I think it's under the Users & Accounts .msc in the control panel, but tell the computer to use Win2000 style logons.

    Welcome Screens Suck : )
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    iHatePopUps wrote:
    ..Now i've got a bigger problem. The other admin account is gone, and so are my files in that account! But they're still taking up space in my hard disk! HOW CAN I RETRIEVE THEM?? I'VE GOT SCHOOLWORK, PROJECTS AND SONGS IN THERE!! PLS HELP!!!!
    I'm glad you were able to get at you stuff again. As a friendly word of advice, wouldn't now be a good time to backup your files? Someday you'll be awfully glad you did. :)
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited August 2005
    There's no way what I did would delete an account, all it does is toggle whether windows logs in automatically or not. If you're using the welcome screen there's no way to log in with Administrator accounts, they simply don't show up in the welcome screen (although they're still there). As Jonesy said you need to get rid of the welcome screen before you can log in using an administrator account.
  • JonseyJonsey Microsoft Corporation
    edited August 2005
    Actually, at the welcome screen you can hit crtl+alt+del twice in short succession to jump to the Win2k style login screen, which is really handy to know when you're out consulting on a poorly setup Windows machine. : )
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited August 2005
    Ah I never knew that, cheers for the info fella :D
  • iHatePopUpsiHatePopUps Singapore
    edited August 2005
    ok...i'll do that...thanks for the help guys...how'd you guys learn all this anyway? Trial and error??
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited August 2005
    You pick it up as you go along, ask for help on forums, spend lots of time playing about with PCs and seeing what works and what doesn't :)

    edit: So yeah, trial and error really :D
  • JonseyJonsey Microsoft Corporation
    edited August 2005
    Mostly from my father. How he learned it is close to how I learned it... it's really like the trades system from back in the day.

    My Dad drove trucks (first long-haul, eventually settling on dumptrucks) for 21 years. However, as time went on, he found a passing interest in computers, as they related to another of his hobbies (which he picked up from his Dad, go figure). Dad had read an article in one of his model-railroading magazines about controlling a layout from a computer.

    This piqued the long-standing interest he had with computers into something more focused. So, he bought a Tandy 1000, with a full 5MB HDD... It was *really* cool not to have to boot off of floppies. (I was in the picture by this point, somewhere around 5 years old).

    He also learned that there were lots of things you could do with comptuers, a lot of which he didn't have time to teach himself, because of his 10-14 hour workdays.

    So, he started hanging around the local PC Hardware shop, in Lynnwood WA (I think), that was run by the coolest set of brothers Nguyen I've ever met. Anyway, he eventually started doing some parttime work there, mostly to learn a new skillset. He focused on hardware diagnosis & troubleshooting, as he never really cared for coding. Dad, having learned a good set of electrician skills in the military, was pretty handy with a soldering iron, and putting a new $0.75 capacitor on a $400 motherboard is a rather lucrative business.

    Anyway, about this time, Mom's been working her way up the corporate ladder, and is promoted to an AVP, if she'll move to Connecticut (fancy that, home office for an insurance company is in the insurance capitol of the world). Dad's been getting beat to hell doing the whole trucking thing, and decides on a career change.

    Turns out that the primary skill-set for an IT guy is a good dose of common sense, a love of reading, and a good memory (so you can learn what breaks things more, then try anything else to get it working again). Dad (and hopefully I) fit that description to a T.

    So, a few hundred in PC-related books, a few clients who have intense social networks, and like word-of-mouth referals, and Dad was a computer consultant.

    I've been mucking with computers since ... well, the Tandy 1000 days. When you're five years old, and can copy and move files at a DOS prompt, you know you're lined up for being tech-savvy.

    Observing, enjoying what you're doing, and wanting to learn are the keys to being an IT guru. The rest just flows.
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