Welcome unwelcome (XP pro SR-2)

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After six fairly contented months with this OS, suddenly I am faced with a Welcome screen that tells me to click on my user name: not only after re-booting, but on returning from screensaver. How can I get back to the situation in which it simply boots straight to the desktop?
A house guest has been at the machine, uninvited, and may have attempted to register as a second user, but there is nothing to prove that.

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Try:

Start > Run..
Enter:
control userpasswords2
(Return)
> Users Tab >
and Deselect the “Users must enter a user name and password…” option

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Thanks again, Lief.

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And then under Display Properties, clear the checkbox on the Screen Saver tab that reads On resume, display Welcome screen.

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On the off chance your Welcome screen has started to pause for the same reason mine did, I note that after I installed Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, a new checkbox showed up in the TweakUI–>Logon pane — “Show ‘ASPNET’ on Welcome screen” — and it was checked. ASPNET wasn’t in fact actually showing up on the Welcome screen, there was just me, but the Welcome screen was pausing and waiting for me to choose myself (which I hadn’t had to do before). Unchecking the “Show ‘ASPNET’ on Welcome screen” checkbox cleared up the problem.

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My mystery you have solved: I had indeed installed .NET Framework without knowing the first thing about it, in order to run some new software that required it (BiblePro, in fact). Until that, I had lived in blissful ignorance of the welcome screen and never bothered about user accounts. Typical of Microsoft to impose something without consulting the user!
Many thanks.
sydney

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that might be the problem. as a beginner could you please tell me where do I go to change the welcome screen and uncheck the ASPNET. I appreciate your time.

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Do you have TweakUI installed? If not, it is available from here amongst the collection of Microsoft PowerToys.

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Alternatively, check out:
MSKB 827072: The Welcome to Windows screen appears when you start Windows XP after you install the .NET Framework 1.1

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