Blank Password (Pro, SP1)

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Somehow I seem to have acquired a blank password during login. I just click on OK to go on, but it’s a bit annoying. Help.

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You should probably have a ferret (or a wombat?!) around in

Start => Control Panel => User Accounts =>

John

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You should probably have a ferret (or a wombat?!) around in

Start => Control Panel => User Accounts =>

John

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Thanks.

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Thanks.

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All I can find there is how to set a new password. What I really want to do is to have NO password; that is, when I turn the computer on, I want to go to the main screen with no user intervention.

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Try Enable automatic log-in; bypass log-in screen.

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Try Enable automatic log-in; bypass log-in screen.

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By chance did a second account get made and now you have both listed on the welcome screen?

Or when is this password being asked for?

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Some time back, shortly after I first moved to XP, I saw this behavior. Only one account, no password, but stopped on the Welcome screen anyway. After some experimenting I discovered the culprit-that time, anyway.

It happened, repeatedly, after I downloaded .Net Frameworks (1.1, I think-but it might have been 1.0). This update created a ‘hidden’ account that didn’t appear on the Welcome screen. It did show up in User accounts though, which is how I tracked it down.

I’d been uncomfortable about the ‘no password’ thing anyway but at the time I was trying to network the XP machines with Win98 ones & wanted as simple a configuration as possible to start with. Figured that once the networking was working I could secure it later. (It never did work to my satisfaction-I just kept tinkering with it until I got rid of the last of the Win98 machines.) So I took that as a sign & added passwords. Later, at the customer’s insistence, I added auto-login. (I wonder if the customer remembers what passwords I set up for them? I sure as heck don’t.)

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Some time back, shortly after I first moved to XP, I saw this behavior. Only one account, no password, but stopped on the Welcome screen anyway. After some experimenting I discovered the culprit-that time, anyway.

It happened, repeatedly, after I downloaded .Net Frameworks (1.1, I think-but it might have been 1.0). This update created a ‘hidden’ account that didn’t appear on the Welcome screen. It did show up in User accounts though, which is how I tracked it down.

I’d been uncomfortable about the ‘no password’ thing anyway but at the time I was trying to network the XP machines with Win98 ones & wanted as simple a configuration as possible to start with. Figured that once the networking was working I could secure it later. (It never did work to my satisfaction-I just kept tinkering with it until I got rid of the last of the Win98 machines.) So I took that as a sign & added passwords. Later, at the customer’s insistence, I added auto-login. (I wonder if the customer remembers what passwords I set up for them? I sure as heck don’t.)

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By chance did a second account get made and now you have both listed on the welcome screen?

Or when is this password being asked for?

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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All I can find there is how to set a new password. What I really want to do is to have NO password; that is, when I turn the computer on, I want to go to the main screen with no user intervention.

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