Windows XP Start Up

[boffo]

I have a couple of computers using Win XP.
On start up one of them wants me to click on user name half way through the start up and after I click on my name it continues on for another 40 seconds till start up finishes.
The other XP computer doesn't ask me to click on user name half way through the start up. It just keeps motoring along till all is done.

I'm trying to get the first computer to stop this practice of asking me which user to load up half way into start up. Just wondering if anyone knows how to do this.

Went into control panel, user accounts, but, I'm not sure how to get it to do a quick start up without asking that "which user" question and interrupting all the forward momentum.
Thanks for any info.

 

[danmand]

I have a related question, on my ex wife's XP starts up with administrator as user.
She then has to change user to herself. How do you tell XP which user to start up with?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Believe you have to pick the option to remove any passwords and other users in 'user accounts'. I did that long time ago but forgot exactly how to do it.

Just did it in Vista through 'user accounts' and now both XP and Vista do a complete start up without that delay of having to put a password in, or pick a user.

 

[boffo]

Believe you have to pick the option to remove any passwords and other users in 'user accounts'. I did that long time ago but forgot exactly how to do it.

Just did it in Vista through 'user accounts' and now both XP and Vista do a complete start up without that delay of having to put a password in, or pick a user.

Okay, thanks for that. Deleted the extra user account and that got rid of the start up delay that I was experiencing.
For some reason Windows had created a user account named "ASP.NET Machine" and the existence of that user account was delaying the start up.
Again, thanks for the info.

 

[danmand]

Now, what do I do, woodpecker?

 

[boffo]

This is just a guess; but, for what it's worth, I would go to control panel , then user accounts then see if you can change your ex wife's account so that she is the computer administrator.
Then assuming she is the only user of the computer she can delete all the other user accounts once she is computer administrator.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/advanced/adminaccount.mspx

 

[WoodPeckr]

Now, what do I do, woodpecker?

You could eliminate that user account and just run as administrator.
I removed all that password and multiple user crap because I just want to turn the PC on so it does a full boot up with no delays since I have no security issues here.

With my dual boot setup with linux anything I want secure is there because nobody at home has any interest in learning linux. They are befuddled enought with Windows...

 

[danmand]

You could eliminate that user account and just run as administrator.
I removed all that password and multiple user crap because I just want to turn the PC on so it does a full boot up with no delays since I have no security issues here.

Some genius from a PC store setup her broadband access on her userid,
but got XP to start up with the administrator ID. I imagine there is somewhere you
can tell XP what user to start up with, but I don't know where it is.
I never complicate my own machines with multiple userid's.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I imagine there is somewhere you
can tell XP what user to start up with, but I don't know where it is.

It's in that 'user account' maze.

I never complicate my own machines with multiple userid's.

Same here.

 

[jwmorrice]

Perhaps you'd find this useful: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-103

jwm

 

[clules]

XP has a feature called "autologon". You can set any Windows XP computer to automatically log into a user account, instructions on how to set this up can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231