Login box at startup

[Dennis Marks]

My computer has only one user and no password. "Control userpasswords2"
has a check in "user must enter a username and password to use this
system". I assume this is only in effect if there is a password. I know
if you uncheck it a default logon is needed when there is a password.
All is fine with my computer. I do not get a login box and don't want one.

My brother-in-law has only one user and no password. He gets the sign in
box every time. Since there is no password he just hits return. I tried
playing around with "Control userpasswords2" but it doesn't seem to do
anything.

How can he get rid of the login box?

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Dennis M. Marks

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[JS]

Try Power Toy's Tweak UI from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Install, run and under Logon you will find check boxes to select the
accounts you want displayed and in the Autologon you can choose to
Enable/Disable it by Checking or Un-checking the 'Logon automatically'
option.

JS

 

[WTC]

Follow this KB article:

How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

The article has two methods that you can try, I prefer method 2 or use
Microsoft's TweakUI for XP as suggested by JS.