Re: Types of Accounts.

Barbara jay wrote:
I have used Windows for many years, but I am NOT a very sophisticated user. Recently I got an HP digital camera and I loaded the HP software and transferred some pictures to my computer.

After that, every time the screen-saver came on, there was a Welcome screen that had to be clicked to continue. After much tribulation, I finally stumbled on how to get rid of the Welcome screen when disabling the screen-
saver. However, the Welcome screen still comes up whenever I turn on my computer.

Before I loaded the HP digital camera software, I never saw a Welcome screen.

I found it was because I now had a "computer administrator". Today, in trying to get rid of the "computer administrator", I found out having a "computer administrator" makes my computer more vulnerable to viruses. I found out there were Limited Accounts. I imagine that is what I had before. But, when I tried to change from a "computer administrator" account to a Limited Account, it said the computer had to have an Administrator.

On one screen it advises me not to use a "computer administrator" because it makes my computer vulnerable to viruses, and on another it says I have to have an administrator. I don't have a clue what to do, nor do I understand what it is talking about.

Help!!!

Barbara Jay


Barbara, to add to what others have said, to automatically login follow this procedure:

1. Go to Start | Run and type in:  control userpasswords2 | Ok.

2. On the Users tab, clear the Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer check box and then click OK.

3. In the Automatically Log On dialog box that appears, type the user name and password for the account you want to be logged on each time you start your computer.

You can accomplish the same thing by:

Download and install tweakui for xp and use its auto logon feature.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Lastly you can add the Dialog box that comes up when running control userpasswords 2 to the Control Panel with the following tweak:

Add Control User Passwords2 to the Control Panel (Line 1)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User

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