Re: switching user accounts
- From: "Olórin" <incanus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:13:53 +0100
usmcwife89 via WindowsKB.com wrote:
Sorry I wasn't more clear. I cannot be logged on to both accounts.
Unless I completely log off, I cannot access the second account. If
I select "switch user", I get to the welcome screen, but cannot
select the other account. The screen flashes momentarily, but stays
at the welcome screen only allowing me to access the first account.
I have to select "log off" in order to access the other account.
Olórin wrote:
Just got a new computer and when I try to switch users, the screen
flashes and then I am returned to the Welcome page. Works the same
way for both user accounts; I have to log off in order to switch. I
do have the Fast User Switch selected. Anyone have any thoughts?
thanks in advance
That's how it is supposed to work! It takes you to the welcome page
so you can select the account you want to switch to.
You don't need to log off, though - that's the point of
user-switching. If you just hold down the Windows key (wavy flag to
the left of the spacebar between Ctrl and Alt) and tap L, that'll
"lock" your PC for you, taking you to the welcome page ready to
switch to (log in to) another account.
If you log in to another account and then do the same again, getting
back to the Welcome Page, and *then* log back in to the first
account, you'll find everything as it was when you left it. Just be
careful of leaving too much running when you switch from one logon -
those applications will still be running when you log in as someone
else, using up resources that would otherwise be available to you.
Ah, okay. Well, if your Fast User Switching service isn't disabled (Start >
Run > type "services.msc" > press Enter), then the first thing I'd try is
Kelly Theriot's "Restore Fast User Switching" tweak, number 34 on the left
at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm. (If that service IS
disabled, double-click it and set its startup type to manual, come out of
Services, and try user-switching again.)
Sudden thought: this IS a standalone or workgrouped machine, isn't it -
you're not on a domain?
.
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