Windows XP Login

[pmanson]

For some reason when I rebuilt my Windoze PC a while ago, when I boot up the PC I have to select a profile rather than the PC just booting straight into Windows.

(I'm currently running XP Home as I haven't got round to updating it to XP Pro, but I had the same problem on XP Pro after I ran some updates.)

Its not a big issue just a bit of a pain!

[Big_Dan]

SP1 or one of the other security patches set this for you.

[GregE240]

Its in Control Panel, User Accounts.

Its the bit that says "Change the way users log on or off" (I think).

Unflagging one of the settings (Use the Welcome Screen from memory) boots it straight into XP rather than having to press the button to log on.

Hope this helps.
Greg

[JoolzB]

I believe you have to reboot into Safe mode and login using the default admin password and specify that the PC logs in to a certain users account without prompting for it.

I shall do a google search when I get a mo.

[GregE240]

I don't think its that, Joolz.

I did this recently on my home PC and it certainly didn't involve that.

Can't check this laptop as its in a domain, so you lose the ability to do what our man wants to do.

Greg

[JoolzB]

Well that's how I did it but I can't remember exactly how d'oh. By the looks of what I've been searching there may be easier ways. I will keep looking.

[pdV6]

You only get the cuddly profile screen as an option when you're not in a domain.

IIRC, in a domain you only have the option of "require users to Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in" or not, but in the cuddly version you can set it to auto-select a profile or display the profiles screen on startup.

[JoolzB]

Ok I found this http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270-5280112.html

not how I did it but it appears my way was a bit long winded.

[pmanson]

Cheers guys!