Hello again, ORIGINAL problem ... I might be missing a certain pwl file because upon rebooting I get that window asking for my user name and a password. A side question here is exactly what do they mean by a "user" name in this context?
Anyway, I enter my email user name, "harold7" and do not enter any password thinking that this window will not appear next time I reboot. Problem is that it continues to appear on each rebooting. Any idea what the solution is? ... Harold CLINT says ... What OS, is this XP or '98? Without knowing, all I can say now is TweakUI has an area for this. ... Clint PETER says ... I get this on my 98 box from time to time too, it's a pain :( In C:\Windows look for a file with a pwl extension, something like harold.pwl or its like. Delete this file. Then go to your desktop and right click on Network neighborhood and choose Properties, then in the Primary Network Logon switch to Client for Microsoft Networks. Restart your computer, and when the password box comes up again enter a user name and leave the password blank, if a confirmation is asked then leave it blank as well. ... Peter Kaulback WALLY says ... You might have answered that question too many times and created several .pwl files. Note: this method has been suggested on this list by others, so it is nothing new. Go to the windows folder and delete all the .pwl files that you find. Reboot your computer. The box asking for the password should appear. The name you gave when you installed win 98 should be in the user space. Do not enter anything in the password space. Just hit enter. The request for a password should not come up again. If you have gone to control panel, and the users icon and created additional user names for your computer, you are going to have to delete the additional names. ... Wally RESPONSE (I'm so happy to be in the company of this list; you're all great. Standing invitation to any of you if you are ever in NYC. If during the summer, bring your bathing suit; I'm overlooking the beach). Yes, I have Windows 98 and TweakUi did the trick. Strangely enough before this happened I did (I forget the reason) delete all pwl files thinking that they all will regenerate themselves. AND, upon rebooting (as I originally mentioned), did enter a user name (not the one that Wally suggested; I'll do that next time), and I kept getting that "user name, password" prompt each time I rebooted. That's what was so strange and the reason I posted this problem. Using TweakUi fixed it. I'm sorry I didn't review the pwl files in the system before tweaking it but currently I have: Harold7.pwl ... in Windows HaroldBr.pwl ... in Windows (Br must have something to do with Braunstein, either for Windows98 or for MSWord) Harold.pwl ... in Windows Default.pwl ... in Cabs If I want to play games, I'll delete one at a time and see what happens (now that I know TweakUi is the fixes password glitches). Funny that I always use Ui to tweak other matters ... remove Network Neighborhood from desktop (contrary to warning, removing that never gave me a problem), removing the word, "shortcut" from shortcuts I make, removing splash screen, deleting the logoff line in the Start menu, configuring the right-click New menu, using add/remove tab, and many other alterations; now I add password tweaking to the list (whoever developed TweakUi should have his face added to Mt. Rushmore). There are other tweakers available including Tweak2000 and Xteq Systems X-Setup (we'll put all their faces on Mt. Tweaker). To everyone, thanks again . Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
