Probably an easy question

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I am sure there is a more appropriate place to post this question, but I
could not choose from the hundreds of windows groups and I know that
hardware people tend to be pretty savvy.

I just reinstalled XP. For some reason it is forcing me to use the welcome
screen. Before it logged all the way to the desktop. I have no password
set.

How do I disable the welcome screen.

thanks in advance.
 
mrbisco, 6/23/2005, 3:20:54 PM,
I am sure there is a more appropriate place to post this question,
but I could not choose from the hundreds of windows groups and I know
that hardware people tend to be pretty savvy.

I just reinstalled XP. For some reason it is forcing me to use the
welcome screen. Before it logged all the way to the desktop. I have
no password set.

How do I disable the welcome screen.

thanks in advance.
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Control Panel--Users--Use Welcome Screen (uncheck)
Something like that since I am using W2K right now.
 
no...that just gets rid of welcome screen and brings up a login box.

there is a way to avoid the whole thing entirely. the thing is, when you
first install the OS...it boots to the desktop. somewhere in the windows
updates i lost that ability.
 
mrbisco said:
I am sure there is a more appropriate place to post this question, but I
could not choose from the hundreds of windows groups and I know that
hardware people tend to be pretty savvy.

I just reinstalled XP. For some reason it is forcing me to use the
welcome screen. Before it logged all the way to the desktop. I have no
password set.

How do I disable the welcome screen.

thanks in advance.
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http://www.theeldergeek.com/unattended_logon.htm

the elder knows it all...............add to favourites
 
mrbisco said:
I am sure there is a more appropriate place to post this question,
but I could not choose from the hundreds of windows groups and I know
that hardware people tend to be pretty savvy.
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And what's wrong with microsoft.public.windowsxp.GENERAL then? Mind you, you
could have found the answer yourself had you bothered to STFW. That question
is asked and answered 100s of times a week. http://groups.google.com and
that's more help than you deserve.
 
And what's wrong with microsoft.public.windowsxp.GENERAL then? Mind you, you
could have found the answer yourself had you bothered to STFW. That question
is asked and answered 100s of times a week. http://groups.google.com and
that's more help than you deserve.
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The single biggest mistake the OP made was to assume that "hardware
people tend to be pretty savvy." LOL

And the "microsoft.public" forums are no better.

Always keep in mind the following paraphrase of Oscar Wilde's warning:

"There is much to be said in favor of Usenet. By giving us the
opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of
the community."


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Bob said:
The single biggest mistake the OP made was to assume that "hardware
people tend to be pretty savvy." LOL

And the "microsoft.public" forums are no better.
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You're missing Miss Tick's point entirely. By using a search engine for
usenet (such as google's "groups" advanced search), one is able to peruse
the entire history of a particular problem. In many of the resulting
threads is given the answer.

The only 'problem' is that it takes ten minutes of searching for an answer,
whereas asking a question (that's already been answered numerous times
already) takes about two minutes. Most people would rather spend two
minutes asking a question than spending ten minutes looking up the answer
for themselves.

Jon
 
The only 'problem' is that it takes ten minutes of searching for an answer,
whereas asking a question (that's already been answered numerous times
already) takes about two minutes. Most people would rather spend two
minutes asking a question than spending ten minutes looking up the answer
for themselves.

Jon
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Amen :O
 
.... snip on questions vs search engines ...
The only 'problem' is that it takes ten minutes of searching for
an answer, whereas asking a question (that's already been answered
numerous times already) takes about two minutes. Most people
would rather spend two minutes asking a question than spending ten
minutes looking up the answer for themselves.
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Except that I have found that human beings are somewhat better at
DWIM than machines. So the question may be more efficient; it
certainly amuses more people.
 
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