Re: WindowsXP asking for password
From: Barry Watzman (WatzmanNOSPAM_at_neo.rr.com)
Date: 12/07/04
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:02:01 -0500 To: dnamertz <dnamertz@discussions.microsoft.com>
Installing .net Framework added a user, which meant that since there
were then at least two users, it was necessary to ask for user
identification at startup. The added user wasn't a "real" user in the
normal sense, it was a "phantom" user required for certain program
functions. In a later update to .Net, this was done away with, and the
need for user identification again disappeared. If you get back into
the system, run Windows update -- several times, possibly -- and install
all of the updates for .Net Framework (these are not "critical updates",
they are "optional updates" offered from within Windows Update).
That explains the user logon, but not the password request unless you
had entered a password for the default user.
dnamertz wrote:
> I have been using WindowsXP on my computer for 2 years and never had to use a
> password to log-in. It has always gone straight to the desktop when I turned
> on the computer until this morning. This morning it asked me to chose which
> user I want to log-in as, but did not ask for a password. I don't know why
> it asked this after 2 years of not asking...I must have changed the settings
> somehow. So I tried to change the settings in Windows so I would not have to
> chose a user each time I turned on the computer. Well, the next time I
> turned it on, Windows was asking for a password before it will do anything
> else. I have never had a password (as far as I can remember) and I know no
> way around it...so I can not use my computer. I had to pull out my 7 year
> old computer just to post this question. So, how do I change the settings in
> WindowsXP to stop asking for a password when I don't even have a password to
> use? Please help! I desperately need some files on my computer for work by
> Monday.
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