Xp User Accounts - Welcome Screen

vits5

Hi,
Question: When I turn on my PC, three user accounts are listed (I created these usr accounts when I first set up PC). To get to the desktop, I have to choose a user and then wait while the preferences for that user are loaded and eventually I get to the desktop. This is soooo time consuming and unnecessary. There is only one user, with the associated preferences, that I would like to boot as going directly to the desktop.

In the control panel, where they have user accounts, there's a section: "change the way users log on and off". If I turn off the Welcome Screen feature, I assume I'll have to logon with a username and password. Don't want this as I don't remember what password I originally used and I'm afraid of getting locked out of my system, and as I said before, I just want to boot to the desktop.

Is there something that I can change to go directly to desktop every time I boot without worrying about all of the above?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thrax

http://8help.osu.edu/2063.html

vits5

Thrax wrote:

http://8help.osu.edu/2063.html

Hi,

One of the directions you referred me to says: "type control userpasswords2". Do I literally type what it says, or do I have to substitute a password where it says userpasswords? If I have to enter a password, I have a problem as I do not remember the password. Let me know what you think., Thanks!

Thrax

Type it literally. In any circumstance you will need to know the password of the account to achieve what you are looking for.

vits5

So, if I can't remember the password that I used when I set this PC up, I can't accomplish what I want? Is there anywhere it's store on my system?

Thrax

I wrote this guide will allow you to reset it:
http://icrontic.com/articles/windows_nt_password_recovery