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Re: old style logon only from screen saver         


Author: Nepatsfan
Date: Jul 22, 2006 18:30

0C3C3BA6-0A1E-4E39-A5D4-E9E49AB88ED1@microsoft.com,
Simple Country Boy wrote:
> The old style logon dialog box (Windows 2000?) appears when
> resuming from the screen saver. I have "Use the Welcome
> Screen" & "Fast User Switching" selected on the user
> accounts "Select logon and logoff options" dialog. Indeed
> the welcome screen appears each time the computer is turned
> on and also when I log off.
>
> Until recently, the welcome screen also appeared when
> resuming from the screen saver. However now the old style
> logon dialog box appears instead. Also the screeen saver tab
> says "on resume, password protect" where it probably should
> say "On resume, display welcome screen."
>
> What's going on?

Have you deleted any user accounts lately?
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Re: old style logon only from screen saver         


Author: Nepatsfan
Date: Jul 26, 2006 07:27

As I said earlier, the behavior you're seeing now is normal for
a Windows XP system that has only one user account. The only
way I know of to change that is to add a second account.

If you haven't done so already, you might want to post your
question to the XP General newsgroup.

Discussions in Windows XP General
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft...

Good luck

Nepatsfan

34DEE8B2-7A7D-437F-99FB-234830FE21DC@microsoft.com,
Simple Country Boy wrote:
> No, I haven't deleted any user accounts lately.
> There has never been more than one user account...
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