Starnge desktop behavior with fast user switching

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Hi.

My OS is XP Pro SP1.

There is only one user set up, besides the Administrator account and
the other automatically created accounts. Let?s call this user Darth
Vader. Darth Vader?s in the adminsitrators group.

I have 2 small but annoying problems, and I don?t know if they?re
related.

First Problem: When I use "fast user switching" to switch users from
Darth Vader to Administrator (or vice versa), the desktop gets
confused when the new user loads. If the desktop is confused, and I
then switch users from Administrator to Administrator (or from Darth
Vader to Darth Vader), the desktop fixes itself. In other words
switching to a *different* user messes up the desktop, whereas
"switching" to the *same* user fixes it.

By "confused desktop", I mean the following:

1) Even though the taskbar is set as LOCKED, when I open an app, the
bottom of the app window goes BEHIND the takbar all the way to the
bottom of the screen instead of bottoming out at the task bar?s top
edge. If I right-click the task bar and hit properties to check the
settings, the settings box does the same thing, so the OK/Cancel/Apply
buttons are hidden behind the task bar. Dragging the bottom edge of
an app to the bottom of the screen allows the window to go down behind
the taskbar instead of stopping at the edge of the taskbar (and
maximizing an app window does the same thing)

2) Desktop icons that were situated at the lowest screen position
(snap-to-grid is turned on) show up too low -- touching the task bar
-- whereas normally at the lowest position, there?s room between the
icon and the task bar.

If I reset the settings (locked / always on top), it?s fixed, but only
for that session. If I switch users again, the problem is back,
unless I?m switching from same-user to same-user, in which case it?s
all fixed (until I switch to a different user again!).

Second Problem: when booting, the welcome screen is skipped altogether
and the default user?s desktop comes right up. It used to be that I
would get the welcome screen (even though only one user is listed
there), and that?s the way I want it. I checked to be sure the
welcome screen is enabled (it is).

Does any of that make sense? Doeas anyone know what the heck??

Thanks,

-WW

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