Escaping XP's welcome page

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Svinlesha

I’m not sure where to post this, so if it’s in the wrong forum, mods
feel free to move it.

The problem I’m having is embarrassingly basic, and also rather minor
but here goes:

I recently downloaded and installed a certain program. In order fo
that program to work, I was further required to download and instal
something from Microsoft entitled “.Net.” Now, I’ve got no idea what
exactly, .Net is, but I can see in my control panel that I’ve installe
“Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1.”

Anyway, after installing .Net I discovered that some settings had bee
changed on my computer. One, in particular, I find particularl
annoying: I now have to log in to the “account” I want use every time
start my computer.

Before I installed .NET, XP would automatically open my desktop o
start-up. Afterwards, I am forced to specify which account I want t
use. Since we’ve only got one account on the computer, this is a
unnecessary step. But I don’t know how to re-configure XP t
automatically log in/open up our default account, if that makes an
sense.

In other words, is there a way to bypass the “welcome screen” i
Windows XP if your computer only has one active user account?

Help or suggestions, anyone
 
1. Click Start, Run and enter CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2

2. Highlight the user account you want automatically logged on.

3. Uncheck Users must enter a username and password............

4. Click Apply.

5. In the next dialog, enter the password, if any, for the user you chose in step 2 and OK your way out.
 
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