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1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?

2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
What is the fix?
 
1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
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Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a
user name and password to use this computer."

Or do the same thing with TweakUI.


2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
What is the fix?
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Please help us to help you. What updates? What does "are not install
properly" mean? What happens when you try? If you get an error
message, please quote it verbatim.

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1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
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Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen.
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use
this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically
in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and
Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]
2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
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You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798
 
1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
Click to expand...

Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen.
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use
this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically
in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and
Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]
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All right will try.
You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798
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Well what is happening you see 1 of X then it does not install properly.
 
Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a
user name and password to use this computer."
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GOt you.
Or do the same thing with TweakUI.





Please help us to help you. What updates? What does "are not install
properly" mean? What happens when you try? If you get an error
message, please quote it verbatim.

For information on how to make a good newsgroup posting, read
http://www.dts-l.com/goodpost.htm and



Also, for the future, unrelated questions like these are best asked in
separate messages.
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All right, the fixes are ready to be installed.

IT hits 1 of X and is not installed.

How do you get around this?
 
The said:
1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user
startup?

2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
What is the fix?
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I've read the responses up until now - not bad - but you really haven't
given much of further information concerning #2. Anyway...

For 1...
Automatic Logons:
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Microsoft method:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231
(Essentially the same... but different place:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/13/ )


Microsoft Method 2:
TweakUI from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


control userpasswords2 method:
1) Go to the Start Menu and the Run box.
2) Type in the following:

control userpasswords2

now click OK
3) In the new Windows that appears select the account you wish to make the
primary logon.
Now uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password..." box.
4) Hit Apply and a dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the selected
users password.
Click OK when you are done...
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Hopefully that gets you where you are wanting to be.

It is a *good* thing in the user arena to:
1) Have strong passwords.
2) Have more than one administrator level account (with strong passwords).


For 2...
Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

(Try it even if you did a clean, not repair, installation.)
(Try it even if you performed some sort of restore - not repair install.)
(Try it even if you did an upgrade installation.)
(Try it even if you think nothing there sounds like it applies...)

Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and do a custom scan for updates.
In my opinion, you can safely install everything except the optional
hardware updates.
 
there seems to be
an obsession for
updates.

if your computer
functions normally,
i wouldn't waste
any time on them.
 
The said:
1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user
startup?
2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
What is the fix?
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db.·.. > said:
there seems to be
an obsession for
updates.

if your computer
functions normally,
i wouldn't waste
any time on them.
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Not all updates fix a function one would notice being a problem until it is
too late.

Security updates normally are fixing a problem that can be taken advantage
of by someone other than the main user - sometimes despite (or even because
of) other 'protections' being utilized.

Therefore I would have to say your over-generalized advice might actually
*cause* someone issues they would not have if they had not followed your
advice. ;-)
 
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