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Download "TweakUI" from Microsoft Powertoys. Amongst many tweaks that is
one of them.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] rtoys.mspx

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb RAM
"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <revbob@the.rectory> wrote in message
news:Xns967DC3BC5399Frevbob@207.46.248.16...
> I'm running XP Professional, SP2. Ever since I installed the latest
> security upgrade this past weekend, when you restart Windows or
> sometimes when the screen saver is interrupted, it goes back to the
> "Welcome" screen with the little icon, which I have to click to log in.
>
> I have exactly *one* account, no password, and I'd like my computer
> back the way it was, logging in automatically to the default user. How
> do I do that?
> --
> Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
> bob at crispen dot org
> Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/
>
> They say you can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
> I say: Any man I want to? -- John Alejandro King

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

The voices told me that "Anando [MS-MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> would
say on Wed 22 Jun 2005 09:11:35p:

> 1) Click on Start/Run and type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
>
> 2) Uncheck 'Users must enter a passwords...'
>
> 3) Hit apply and supply the username and password for the account
> under which you want Windows to log in everytime.
>
> 4) Ok your way out.

Thanks, Arando. FYI, this caused Administrator to be the default
login. I was able to use TweakUI per Peter's suggestion to set it
back to the default I use.

Thanks again, folks.
--
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
bob at crispen dot org
Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/

They say you can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
I say: Any man I want to? -- John Alejandro King

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

You could supply the username/password of any local user for that purpose. Glad to see your problem
is sorted.

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Anando
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http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
http://www.mvps.org

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"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <revbob@the.rectory> wrote in message
news:Xns967E7D2DCA338revbob@207.46.248.16...
> The voices told me that "Anando [MS-MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> would
> say on Wed 22 Jun 2005 09:11:35p:
>
>> 1) Click on Start/Run and type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
>>
>> 2) Uncheck 'Users must enter a passwords...'
>>
>> 3) Hit apply and supply the username and password for the account
>> under which you want Windows to log in everytime.
>>
>> 4) Ok your way out.
>
> Thanks, Arando. FYI, this caused Administrator to be the default
> login. I was able to use TweakUI per Peter's suggestion to set it
> back to the default I use.
>
> Thanks again, folks.
> --
> Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
> bob at crispen dot org
> Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/
>
> They say you can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
> I say: Any man I want to? -- John Alejandro King