Windows 7 Welcome Screen
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
What does typing
net userat a command prompt show?"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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ledtech3 wrote:
did the other account get disabled somehow ?
No, the account is active and I can login without issue. It is just the Welcome Screen that has stuffed up.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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What does typing
net userat a command prompt show?"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
DavidCrow wrote:
What does typing
net userat a command prompt show?That both accounts are active and members of the Administrators group. Added both users to the Users group (as another fix advised will get them back on the Welcome Screen) with net localgroup Users Waz /add Both users have correct settings in Registry ProfileList and also user directories in the C:\Users directory. I can login as both of them.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Have you tried turning it off and back on again? :-D
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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DavidCrow wrote:
What does typing
net userat a command prompt show?That both accounts are active and members of the Administrators group. Added both users to the Users group (as another fix advised will get them back on the Welcome Screen) with net localgroup Users Waz /add Both users have correct settings in Registry ProfileList and also user directories in the C:\Users directory. I can login as both of them.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Thanks Jorgen, but this is the first site I went through.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Does this one have a
.Defaultkey?"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Michael Martin wrote:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Does this one have a
.Defaultkey?"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
DavidCrow wrote:
Does this one have a
.Defaultkey?No. I found details about it here[^], here[^] and another way to supposedly fix it here[^]. Thanks for trying again.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Sorry, this may be useless, I hardy touch windows but try opening the policy editor for local policies and checking out the options in there, you're probably likely to find it. Fairly sure thats where all the applicable settings where last time I had an issue like this, Fairly sure I've had a security suite kill me with something like that.
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I've been all over the Internet and can't find a fix that is relevant to my issue or that has fixed it. It is minor and should be able to be lived with, but both users of the computer are over 70 and just want to click an icon and type in a password. Got the computer because one of the users couldn't login due to a borked profile entry in the registry. Sorted this and all was good, then installed the million and one Windows Updates available and the issue arose. This is Windows 7 Home Premium, so no advanced tools available that your Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate versions have. So what is the issue? The Welcome Screen when the computer is turned on now no longer has both user icons. It has the last user to login and Other User icons. I have checked that the following settings are as expected. Need Ctrl+Alt+Del to login not required / Users need to enter password is set / Remember last user to login not set / and any of the others listed. I have used the dialogs available via netplwiz and control userpasswords2 and also via the Registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Anyone got an idea? I'm stumped and about to return it and advise they have to type a username cause Microsoft wants them too.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Being serious, it may not be possible, if it's caused by updates. Probably done by M$ in the name of 'simplifying things'. You can get programs that custom-make your login screen[^], so that might be an option. Obviously it might be a security risk too, but that's up to your discretion. Give changing Fast User Switching on/off as well. That might have something to do with it. Another hacky workaround is to design an auto-login program that logs both users in on PC bootup, in some way - that will make their icons be specified explicitly as per the lock screen design.
