Only Guest shows up on Welcome Screen after a change
You were messing around in XP users and somehow caused the Administrator, the only admin account, to not show up on welcome screen any longer.
No fear.
Reboot and when you see the XP Welcome screen hit Ctrl, Alt and Delete TWICE. Put in Administrator as user and type the password. Now you will be logged on as the admin.
TWO options at this point:
Option #1 (this didn't work for me, so I went to option 2, but maybe you'll have better luck)
How to add a user to the Welcome Screen logon page:
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1. Start regedit.exe (Start --> RUN --> REGEDIT --> OK)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t .
3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
4. Enter Administrator as the name, then press Enter.
5. Double-click the new value, set it to 1, and click OK.
6. Close the registry editor.
If this is a non-domain member machine then lets set it to logon ALWAYS as admin automatically....if you want to then
Option #2 is:
You can also use turn on automatic logon without editing the registry in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and in Microsoft Windows XP Professional on a computer that is not joined to a domain. To do this, follow these steps:
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Click Start, and then click Run.
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In the Open box, type control userpasswords2, and then click OK.
Note When users try to display help information in the User Accounts window in Windows XP Home Edition, the help information is not displayed. Additionally, users receive the following error message:
Cannot find the Drive:\Windows\System32\users.hlp Help file. Check to see that the file exists on your hard disk drive. If it does not exist, you must reinstall it.
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Clear the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box, and then click Apply.
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In the Automatically Log On window, type the password in the Password box, and then retype the password in the Confirm Password box.
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Click OK to close the Automatically Log On window, and then click OK to close the User Accounts window.
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