Re: use login password or not?

Yes, I did eventually find it by running "control userpasswords2" which
gave me the user account dialogs I'm more familiar with. I also saw it
when I looked in the Manage My Computer dialogs. I knew it was there :)
just wasn't seeing it. The machine runs XP Pro, but a lot of it is set
up in a "home-ish" sort of way, and I wasn't seeing the normal screens
I do at work, which was a bit confusing.

I know I don't HAVE to use a logon, but I also don't want to leave
myself open for problems, either. This came up, btw, when i was trying
to schedule a .bat to run my Acronis TrueImage backups, and it failed
because it said it needed the login credentials. Well duh, there aren't
any :) If I DO set up a special account with a password, just for this
task, will this mean that I will have to set a password for the others
as well? Or maybe i should just go ahead and do that, but set mine to
be the autologin one? I guess i can always just logoff If I need to get
to another one, right?

While I think of it, is there anyway to get the stupid "home-ish" user
account dialog (and others) to always look like the one I got by
running the command above? Tthis flavor of XP Pro just doesn't look a
lot like the flavor of XP Pro I have at work--that one is far less
"cartoonish", ya know? and I'm not sure why. Both machines are Dell's
and about the same age (coupla months).

Thanks!

elaine

Rick Rogers wrote:
Hi,

You don't *have* to use a logon, it's optional and totally up to you. By the
way, the default administrator account uses the hidden attribute, so unless
you change your folder view options accordingly you will not be able to see
it in the folder structure (but trust me, it still exists).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"epack" <eppack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Got a brand new XP machine at home, and currently do not have any login
passwords set on my usual user account. I'm not using Administrator,
but I set up another one that is an admin. The machine automatically
logs in with my user account, and all I see in the CP is that one and
guest. Actually I don't see Administrator anywhere, which I don't quite
understand--do I have to do something to enable that? I get no welcome
screen, either, even tho that is checked in the user account dialog. Is
this because there's only one user account?

I only have the one machine, which is not networked, and don't have any
kids at home, anything like that, although I am on DSL, but very well
protected with ZoneAlarm Security Suite etc etc. Question is, do I
really need to set a login password on my user account? Or on
Administrator for that matter? I'm not against doing it, I'm just
wondering if I need to with my particular setup.

TIA

elaine


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