Re: Set default user at logon - XP SP2
- From: "xenophon" <paladyn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:50:21 -0400
JS wrote:
Try Power Toy's Tweak UI from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Install, run and under Logon you will find check boxes to select the
accounts you want displayed and other options
JS
???
I have TweakUI installed on both machines. It has no effect in this case. As
I said, there is only _one_ account on each machine, and that is the only
one displayed on the Welcome screen. The problem is that, on the Thinkpad,
the text cursor is automatically placed in the password entry text box when
the screen appears, ready for entry, while on the desktop it requires either
two tab presses or a mouse-click on the (only) user name to display the
password entry textbox and place the text cursor in it.
Granted, this may not seem like a major issue, but it can be quite
irritating. I spend about 65% of my time working on the Thinkpad, and become
accustomed to simply beginning to type my password when the blue screen
appears. I have on many occasions, out of habit, done this on the desktop
only to look up and realize that the keystrokes were going into the void
because the entry box was not active.
On machines running the same operating system, with the same service packs
and update patches, similar functions on each machine should behave the
same, and I'm curious as to why they are not in this case and how to make
them do so. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to address this
issue.
Scott
"xenophon" <paladyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On my ThinkPad running XP SP2, when the Welcome screen comes up my
default user account (only account other than Guest, which is
disabled) is already selected and the cursor is in the password
entry textbox awaiting input. On my desktop, also running XP SP2,
when the Welcome screen comes up it says "Click your user name to
login," even though there is only one user shown. Both machines are
side-by-side at the moment and I can't see a bloody thing different
in the User Accounts setup in Control Panel. I would like to have my
desktop logon be the same as my laptop,
defaulting to the password entry box for the only enabled user on
the system, so that I don't have to click the user name or press Tab
twice to get the entry box. I have Googled, but although I found a
ton of Registry tweaks, and now know how to change the LogonType
(which only switches between Classic and Welcome screens), I can't
find out how to obtain this behavior. Can anybody give me a pointer
to a KB or something, or a better search term than I've been using,
or perhaps explain the process? Thanks. Scott
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