Yeah Welcome screen has always been on. I saw where the Administrator user normally doesnt show up on the Welcome screen, but it has been there up until they rebooted this morning. Not a big deal, but I am just curious as to why it would suddenly disappear from the welcome screen. :-)
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wierd XP issue Sounds as if the welcome screen was turned on... by an update perhaps? Go to Control, User Accounts, Change the way users..., uncheck the Use Welcome Screen box. This will disable fast user switching for the computer, but probably isn't necessary in your case. You should now be able to logon with credentials... On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:14 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: We have a workstation running Windows XP that controls a proprietary piece of hardware. The machine is NOT attached to the active directory, although it is on the network. The proprietary software that runs on it was set up under the Administrator account and *has* to run under the Admin account or it barfs as it requires a keylock and wont see that keylock if you try to run it as another user (it thinks youre trying to violate the license agreement.) Today, they rebooted the machine and the Administrator account was nowhere to be seen and it wouldnt let me log on as the administrator until I logged in as someone else first. I have fixed that using TweakUI to change the default logon credentials, but Im wondering if anyone here knows of any recent updates that would have caused the behavior to change? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
