You are describing the Windows Welcome screen. If your system formerly booted directly to your desktop and you are the only account on the computer a new account may have been added if you recently installed .NET Framework. See
this. This will cause the Welcome screen to appear.
If that does not apply, to resume booting to your desktop go to Start|Run, enter
control userpasswords2 and click OK. On the page that opens uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" and enter your user name and password on the way out to establish your account as the default.
Thanks Denny, but it didn't work~! :womanindifferent: I went to Start/Run as you said. A window/box opened up and typed: control userpasswords2 and click OK. Nothing happened~! I then went to Start/Control Panel/User Accounts where I found me as "the administrator" :womanindifferent: and then found ASP.NET MACHINE limited account password protected :womanindifferent: I didn't wanna mess anything up so I didn't change a thing.
This all began when I decided to untangle the wires of the whole pc system since it was moved into another room. Long story, but when that happened my Lexmark printer went out after 3 years....and had to get another one...and the wires weren't reaching where the plugs were~! :womanindifferent:
Denny Denham
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May 12th, 2005 15:00
You are describing the Windows Welcome screen. If your system formerly booted directly to your desktop and you are the only account on the computer a new account may have been added if you recently installed .NET Framework. See this. This will cause the Welcome screen to appear.
If that does not apply, to resume booting to your desktop go to Start|Run, enter control userpasswords2 and click OK. On the page that opens uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" and enter your user name and password on the way out to establish your account as the default.
Veggienut
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May 15th, 2005 00:00
Thanks Denny, but it didn't work~! :womanindifferent: I went to Start/Run as you said. A window/box opened up and typed: control userpasswords2 and click OK. Nothing happened~! I then went to Start/Control Panel/User Accounts where I found me as "the administrator" :womanindifferent: and then found ASP.NET MACHINE limited account password protected :womanindifferent: I didn't wanna mess anything up so I didn't change a thing.
This all began when I decided to untangle the wires of the whole pc system since it was moved into another room. Long story, but when that happened my Lexmark printer went out after 3 years....and had to get another one...and the wires weren't reaching where the plugs were~! :womanindifferent: