[Ham-Computers] Default User Login Windows XP machine

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Paul,

OK.  That worked eventually.  It was just different enough from the similar 
operation in W2K that I didn't recognize what to do.  I say eventually 
because I forgot at the first attempt that I had gotten disgusted when I did the 
recent OS install and couldn't get it to just go ahead and boot to 
Administrator that I had finally given up and entered Robert as the user name but 
didn't enter any password.  So when I set the default boot user and absent 
mindedly entered my standard machine PW, it wouldn't boot past the user select 
screen until I just hit the Enter key (blank PW).

So now it boots without user intervention.  Except that it still boots to 
Robert, which I never liked.  But I'm not going to repeat the past three 
weeks just to get rid of it.

I'll add, on the off chance of anyone else later having a similar problem 
and coming across this thread in a search (I've had stranger things happen 
long after the fact), that once you've done this, should you need to add, edit 
or delete a user you'll have to first click the box (turn back on) 
requiring users to enter user name and PW, do whatever it is you need to do, then 
click (select) the default boot user and unclick (turn off) the user name and 
PW requirement and enter the PW for the default user.  This was the same way 
in NT 5 and W2K.

In a message dated 4/18/2010 6:31:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kc9eye at gmail.com writes: 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:44:31AM -0400, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> >Group,
> ...snip...  
> >
> >Does anyone know how/where to get the thing set back up to boot all the 
> way 
> >through as (in this case) Robert?
> >
> >Robert Downs - Houston
> >wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> >MVPA 9480
> 
> Click "Start->Run"
> Type into text box "control userpasswords2"
> Click "OK"||Select "Enter/Return"
> In this dialog there is a check box for requiring users to
> log on. Uncheck this after you have highlighted a user
> that you want to log on in the selection box below.
> Click "Apply", and another dialog will open asking
> for the password of the user you selected to boot
> through to.
> Hope this helps, happy computing.
> 
> -- 
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> KC9EYE            |GNU/Linux 2.6.26-2-486
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> 

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480