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Toggling between "friendly welcome screen" and "classic logon scre
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net alt os windows xp spawnedengineering@yahoo. com (spawn) wrote: How do I logon as root? Administrator is not a choice from the welcome screen, and I can not change back to the classic logon screen as a USER. None of the other users have Admin privileges. See "A Description of the

How to prevent an account from showing up on Welcome Screen Logon?
This change doesn't effect the desktop or user profile in any other way of which I'm aware. -- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend I configured the desktop and Start menu to Windows Classic mode, because I don't like Luna. After rebooting, I got the Luna desktop.

Windows XP Home Edition - No User Icons in Windows XP Login window
Hi, This setting controls which type of logon screen is shown, either the classic Windows NT/2000 format or the Windows XP welcome screen. Start/Run/Regedit Key: Note: Using the classic logon method will also disable the use of fast user switching, where applications remain active in other users sessions.

WinXP logon screen
I am a clean freak of the computer and it gets FULL cleanings and defrag at end of the week...also I am the only user of this computer, and I do not run any The XP style logon/log off usually disappear when another program has altered msgina.dll. However, you're only getting the classic screens at log off so

Bypassing LOG ON prior to Starting Windows XP
But if I want to do a log off / switch user / ctrl+alt+delete to get the classic logon screen and log into Administrator - think again! ctrl+alt+delete doesn't work if someone is already logged in!!!!!!! It gets worse. Let's say nobody is logged in. I hit ctrl+alt+del and log into Administrator.

Classic Logon Screen
The domain users are totally seperate from the domain users, even if they have the same name. LocalPC\Ron is a different user to Domain\Ron. Also, once you join the domain, the welcome screen is history. You get a classic win2k logon screen. -- Best Regards, Ron Lowe MS-MVP Windows Networking "Madmike"

"Welcome Screen" has reverted to classic logon
If so, I don't believe there is a way to do it at the login screen. The login screen is controlled by the Default User and as such must be in one language or the other under XP Embedded. This is a choice in TD while you are building your runtime and can be changed in the Regional and Language Options component.

Remote Desktop Knowledge Base Articles
New to XP and have set up system to require users to use classic logon screen. Yet when I try to create new user account, there is no place to input a user name. Hence no one can log on except me. 2. At classic logon screen, I tried to log on as Guest and it told me "Can't logon interactively".

Logon sreen
When I need to log on as the Administrator I need to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to display classic logon screen. Then I can log on as the Administrator. But it has a catch! NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Administrator REG_DWORD 1 Set to 0 means user is hidden from Welcome screen.

Windows log-on pasword problem
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp basics On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:59:01 -0800, HMT <H...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: How do I get Windows to do an automatic login instead of showing me the Welcome or classic login screen at startup? I'm using XP Pro.

Classic Logon Prompt Requires Password
The default XP logon screen shows the names of the user accounts that have been created on the computer and lets you choose from them. I'd like to have a "hidden" account, so the name doesn't appear there for other users to see (like the Administrator account is hidden). I know I can switch to the classic Windows

How to avoid logon screen
When you use the fast user switching, the user's programs are still running, which is quite different from it does when you logoff. And while in fast user switching welcome screen, it will not give you the classic logon dialog. It is by design. If you want to get the classic logon screen, you have to logoff the

How to prevent an account from showing up on Welcome Screen Logon?
J Norris jeffrey_norris...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general A few months ago I changed the "way users logon" to the classic NT/2k login system. Now, I wish to change it back to the Welcome Screen and Fast User Switching style but am unable to do so. I have tried changing the registry settings (there

Classic Logon Screen
If you want both names listed so you can choose between the two then you have to switch to classic view by unchecking " Use Welcome Screen" you can find that by selecting "change the way users logon" on the Users Account window. Keep in mind that if you do this when you logon as that second person you will have

How to prevent an account from showing up on Welcome Screen Logon?
"Daniel Balshaw" <danba...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<B%9I7.21548$0W1.3600...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>... How do i change the Logon screen back to how it was with Windows 2000 Please don't say User Control Panel! Done That I mean change the graphics back to "Classic" PS, do any of you know how to

Change User Account Name
I realized they just made the screen look cheasy- like a novelty of some sort. I deleted them, along with something else... im unsure of what it was exactly but: NOW my xp logon/welcome screen is stuck in classic mode [even though the box is checked under User Accounts > Change the way... I've tried it,

User Logon - fast switching
Bernd Pfann miracu...@iname.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice - and you'll recieve the xp classic logon-screen. kind regards Bernd "Pat" <p...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c36801c20e4a$f31e8e70$9be62ecf@tkmsftngxa03... XP automatically logs in as the user name that I

How to get classic login screen?
The only local user account was "administrator." A user of this machine went ahead and reset (1) the administrator password (2) the logon screen to set no longer works) and I don't know how to get the classic logon screen to come up to allow me to get logged into the domain when connected via the network cable.

How to log on as root?
If I switch back to the classic login, I can type the administrator's user and password and login. While in that session, I can switch again to the graphic login, and when I <ctrl>+L, I can get the graphic login screen And the administrator's account is there ! Why does this happen only when I reboot ?

Why can'tI go to User Accounts?
Uncheck the box requiring a username and password, click apply/ok and follow the prompts to set up a default logon. I would like to run the classic Windows logon screen in Windows XP. How do I get it to automatically log me on in that mode? I'm the only user, so it's pointless to stop at the logon prompt.