At logon, password prompt already open and cursor positioned?
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From: mikehc on 25 Jan 2008 05:37 I have two XP Pro machines which as far as I can see have identical setups in terms of user accounts etc. On one of them, after a reboot, you have to click the icon for the username in order to open up the password prompt. On the other, the password prompt is already opened for you and all you have to do is type the password to log on. I cannot for the life of me see why they should be different. It's not particularly a roblem, just driving me mad trying to understand why they are not the same. Both machines have Guest account disabled, both are not on a domain (but used to be), both have only one active account with the same name and password. Can anyone shed any light on this? Mike
From: Shaz on 26 Jan 2008 23:57 I think this is what you are refering too... If you go to the control panel, user accounts and click on "change the way users log on and off" Youw ill probably find that "use the welcome screen" is selected for the one you have to select to get the password prompt..... Hope that solves your mystery! Shaz "mikehc" wrote: > I have two XP Pro machines which as far as I can see have identical setups in > terms of user accounts etc. > > On one of them, after a reboot, you have to click the icon for the username > in order to open up the password prompt. > > On the other, the password prompt is already opened for you and all you have > to do is type the password to log on. > > I cannot for the life of me see why they should be different. It's not > particularly a roblem, just driving me mad trying to understand why they are > not the same. > > Both machines have Guest account disabled, both are not on a domain (but > used to be), both have only one active account with the same name and > password. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? > > Mike
From: Nepatsfan on 27 Jan 2008 12:51 "mikehc" <mikehc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:49CF381E-5AEA-4EFC-B831-F2A7B79282C7(a)microsoft.com... >I have two XP Pro machines which as far as I can see have identical setups in > terms of user accounts etc. > > On one of them, after a reboot, you have to click the icon for the username > in order to open up the password prompt. > > On the other, the password prompt is already opened for you and all you have > to do is type the password to log on. > > I cannot for the life of me see why they should be different. It's not > particularly a roblem, just driving me mad trying to understand why they are > not the same. > > Both machines have Guest account disabled, both are not on a domain (but > used to be), both have only one active account with the same name and > password. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? > > Mike Ever shared a folder on the first computer? On an XP system with a single user created account, the default behavior is for the icon on the Welcome screen to be active and the cursor blinking in the password box. As soon as you share a folder on the computer, the behavior changes. You now need to click on the user account icon on the Welcome screen. The cursor starts blinking and you can enter your password. Bottom line, as soon as you enable file sharing on an XP system, be prepared to click on the icon at the Welcome screen. I don't know why this happens, and I've never been able to find a workaround that addresses the issue. I've found that using System Restore to take the computer back to the state that existed before the folder was shared will help but that's not a practical solution. Disabling the Welcome screen is one alternative. Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts and click on "Change the way users log on or off". Uncheck "Use the Welcome screen" and hit the Apply Options button. When you restart the computer, the Logon to Windows dialog will be displayed and you can type in your password. Good luck Nepatsfan
From: mikehc on 1 Feb 2008 04:15 Thanks, Nepatsfan. I have had folders shared on both computers - in fact I have shared folders active on both of them right now! - so while sharing folders may be something to do with it, it doesn't seem to be the whole answer. The other difference I noticed is that on one machine only (the one which requires you to click on a user icon), there's a little "EN" between the password prompt and the green arrow button. Presumably this is something to do with languages, but again I can't see any difference in the language settings between the two machines. This is all very odd! Mike
From: Skynet on 13 Feb 2008 20:35
Yes, i'm getting the same annoyance. I have one account only on my xp machine. I don't connect to a domain and don't have any shared folder. Welcome screen worked fine until yesterday, but at every boot i now have password field automatically opened nomore. Don't know what happened. I compared "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" with the one of a xp on another machine, but they are identical, except for the presence in my machine of the REG_DWORD "ChangePasswordUseKerberos" setted to 1. I deleted it but nothing changed. Hope in a microsoft MVP clarification. |