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Topic Starter	Topic: No user name on XP Welcome screen
DRuM I nose it! Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 17016	Posted: 05-26-2009 07:24 PM                  Would you know why my name never appears on the blue screen that says 'Welcome' as I boot into my desktop? My name is definitely in control panel/user accounts and I'm the only user of this computer, therefore I have the lofty title of administrator.
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AmIdYfReAk Elite Joined: 10 Feb 2000 Posts: 27909	Posted: 05-26-2009 08:31 PM                  Just because you are the only user on the computer, that doesn't make you administrator.. if the thing auto logins then it wont show the user name, when you have multiple accounts on the computer and the GUI login, it will show "Welcome" followed by the user name..
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MKJ Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu Joined: 24 Nov 2000 Posts: 39805	Posted: 05-26-2009 11:59 PM                    ^ that if theres only one user without password it will skip the login procedure
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DRuM I nose it! Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 17016	Posted: 05-27-2009 08:04 AM                  Well it does say my name with 'computer administrator' next to it in user accounts. Also, on my previous installation of xp on my old drive it also used to say my name on the welcome screen, and I don't recall using a password, nor were there ever any other users. Oh well, it's not important and thanks for the info.
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Scourge Pestilence Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Posts: 15073	Posted: 05-27-2009 07:09 PM                  Probably set not to auto login previously.
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DRuM I nose it! Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 17016	Posted: 05-27-2009 09:36 PM                  Scourge wrote: Probably set not to auto login previously. Well, I've just disabled the welcome screen along with fast user switching. It does require me to press ok when my name comes up in a box, but the whole process of rebooting is much faster without the welcome screen. Is this what you mean by not having auto login? I'm still not sure how my name used to come up in the welcome screen though. I'm pretty sure it did, but now I'm wondering if I imagined it.
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MKJ Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu Joined: 24 Nov 2000 Posts: 39805	Posted: 05-27-2009 11:45 PM                    some update of .net framework made the login screen come up even if there was only one (passwordless) user. user controlpanel2 could 'fix' this. a clean install of xp would skip it by default.
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AmIdYfReAk Elite Joined: 10 Feb 2000 Posts: 27909	Posted: 05-28-2009 05:53 PM                  i delete the .net user...
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FragaGeddon FragaGeddon Joined: 16 Sep 2000 Posts: 15993	Posted: 06-02-2009 08:32 PM                    TweakUI
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+JuggerNaut+ social engineer Joined: 13 Oct 2001 Posts: 30213	Posted: 06-03-2009 10:13 AM                  linux.
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