Re: Windows Task Scheduler & System Logon

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:58:14 -0400

Hi,

Click start/run, type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotes) and
click ok. Uncheck the box requiring a username and password, click apply/ok
and follow the prompts to set up a default logon. 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"aakira" <aakira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:BFB0DAE4-32CA-40CC-B932-17426C0E2318@microsoft.com...
>I read a couple of similar posts about this but I did not see a suitable
> answer yet.  I am extremely irritated that I am now forced to login to my 
> own
> system (I live alone and share the computer with no one and now I have to
> login at work AND at home -this is just ridiculous!)  I have to do this
> because someone at Symantec decided to link any automated antivirus checks
> with Windows XP Task Scheduler, so if you haven't configured a password,
> things don't run anymore.  I am lodging a separate complaint with 
> Symantec,
> but what I hope to find out is how to bypass the manual login process
> whenever I start up my system.  I have one userid configured with
> Administrator privileges - I do not want to have to be at the system and
> manually enter the password before the system will do the complete boot
> process.  Surely there must be a way to bypass this step!  Why does Task
> Scheduler have to have passwords configured so other things will run??????
> Please help!  And please - somebody FIX this!  At least give us, the user,
> the OPTION of how we want our systems to be configured and protected!

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