Re: XP suddenly asking for mysterious password

"LindaLL" wrote in
<news:8A6B262F-9A40-4BF4-A277-DA938108BF99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I was just on my laptop and had changed the users to only one and no choices
when booted up.

My guess based on this description is that you disabled Fast User
Switching. That eliminates the Fisher-Price Welcome Screen and reverts
to the classic login prompt.

I have XP Home edition. it is networked with my desktop. I
was having trouble logging onto chat mode in yahoo mail and decided to
reboot. when i rebooted the first thing that happened was the close down
window was different.

Yep, the Fisher-Price fluff was gone.

it had a dropdown window instead of the colorful
buttons. then when it came up again first came a window asking me for a
password to get into windows.

You now have to logon with a username and password to provide security
instead of just hitting a button.

it gave me the user name of Dell. I have never
set this up with a password to get into windows.

You mean it showed "Dell" for the username? Instead try "Administrator"
with a blank password (unless you changed the password after the Windows
XP installation).

i did have a password for my
profile in the past but got rid of that a while ago since i am the only one
using the computer.

What does "got rid of" mean? That you entered a different string as the
password? That you blanked it out?

I tried to log in in safe mode and it looked like it might work...got that
window asking for a password again. So i tried to log in after hitting F8
with the option of opening with the last working configuration. looked like
that was working, but NO... there was the window demanding a password.

What Happened? How can i get this to not happen and get back on my
laptop??????Help!

You'll first need to get logged in. Use the Administrator account. You
can only get to it by booting into safe mode since you have the Home
version of Windows XP (the Pro version doesn't require a reboot). Then
see if a blank password works.

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