password prompt to use XP

achtungbaby · February 2nd, 2004

All of a sudden XP needs a password from me. I managed to get around it and use safe mode to set up a real password so I could use my computer but now I can't figure out how to get rid of it altogether. Any info would be great!

**muzikool** · February 2nd, 2004

Here ya go.

Disabling startup login prompt for password

1. Click Start, and Run
2. Type "Control Userpasswords2" and press enter.
3. Uncheck the box for "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
4. Click Apply and Ok.

Disabling prompt for password after Windows XP resumes from standby or hibernation

1. Click Start, Settings, and Control Panel
2. Double click Power Options
3. Uncheck the "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby" option.
4. Click Apply and then Ok.

By the way, great user name!

achtungbaby · February 3rd, 2004

Thanks for the help muzikool !

**muzikool** · February 3rd, 2004

Sure thing.

achtungbaby · February 4th, 2004

OK I don't know what the hell is going on. I try to turn off the startup login prompt but it always shows up and even if I try to allow the password it will not let me in. Out of nowhere this started and it keeps getting worse.

**muzikool** · February 4th, 2004

Hmm, not quite sure what you're trying to describe here. Does the welcome screen still appear when you boot up? You can turn that off too through the User Accounts in the Control Panel. If you unticked the box saying that users must enter a password and the welcome screen is disabled, then Windows should load straight to your desktop.

**LeeJend** · February 4th, 2004

Muzikool

My wife thanks you. She's been nagging me to turn off the password on her Windows 2000 machine for years. I just left off the "2" - "control userpasswords".

**muzikool** · February 4th, 2004

Great, didn't even know about it in Win2k. Thanks for posting about it, and your wife is certainly welcome!

achtungbaby · February 4th, 2004

Could the problem be I have an administrator account as well as my own? All I want is for the system to start up to completion without having to enter anything.

**muzikool** · February 5th, 2004

Your OS should have an Admin account in addition to your own regardless. Does the Admin account show up on the login (welcome) screen? It usually won't unless you specify that it should. If you always want XP to boot-up to the desktop under your login, then be sure that yours is the only account enabled in the User Accounts section of the Control Panel. If that is the case and you've done everything mentioned above but are still having problems, then I'll see what else I can find out.

achtungbaby · February 6th, 2004

Thanks a lot for your help....In User Accounts I have 3: mine (which says I am an administrator), an administrator account and the guest account which is turned off. When I try to start up a login screen appears and says "administrator" in the username. if I click enter or type anything it won't let me in, saying something about account restrictions. And if I type in my name it won't let me in...even when I tried previously to set up my own password. I have two hard drives on my system...the one I am using now is the previous OS I was using until I installed XP on my second hard drive. This XP was just getting too slow and cluttered. I do plan on removing it from my system as soon as I can get the newly installed one to work OK

**gonaads** · February 6th, 2004

In "control panel" when you open up the "user accounts" window, does it look like this (Your account being the blacked out one)?

Or do you have another user listed besides those two (such as "Administrator" with no name assigned to it)?

(see attachment)

**gonaads** · February 6th, 2004

Also if you created a password you could try and do the "change/create password" thing type in your old password and leave the "new password" box empty click "apply" and see if that works.

**gonaads** · February 6th, 2004

O.K. Found it.

If ya doen't want to enter the password at the welcome menu everytime you boot up yer computer and you tried to disable it in the user accounts (located in the "Control Panel"). And you tried clicking on your account and clicked on "remove my password" and it didn't allow you.

Follow this step to remove it.

1. Go to Control panel
2. Click administrative tools
3. Local Security Settings
4. Click Minimum password length
5. Reduce it to 0, No password required
6. Go to user account in control panel click your account and remove password.

This will disable the password feature.

Works with XP Home, XP Pro, XP Tablet and XP Media.

**j79zlr** · February 7th, 2004

Here's a reg patch that adds control userpasswords2 to the control panel.

http://www.j79zlr.com/reg/UserAccounts.php

achtungbaby · February 7th, 2004

1. Go to Control panel
2. Click administrative tools
3. Local Security Settings

When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere

And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third

**gonaads** · February 7th, 2004

Originally Posted by achtungbaby

1. Go to Control panel
2. Click administrative tools
3. Local Security Settings

When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere

And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third

Post a pic of it please.

also...

To log on as Administrator and reset the password:

1. Restart the computer. After the Power On Self Test (POST), press the F8 key.
2. On the Windows Advanced Options menu, use the ARROW keys to select Safe Mode, and then press ENTER.
3. When you are prompted to select the operating system to start, select Microsoft Windows XP edition (where edition is the edition of Windows XP that is installed), and then press ENTER.
4. On the To begin, click your user name screen, click Administrator.
5. Type the administrator password, and then press ENTER.

NOTE: In some cases, the Administrator password may be set to a blank password. In this case, do not type a password before you press ENTER.
6. Click Yes to acknowledge that Windows is running in Safe mode.
7. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and then click Control Panel).
8. Click User Accounts.
9. Click the user account whose password you want to change.
10. Click Change the Password if you want to keep a password, or click Remove password if you do not want to use a password. If you remove the password, skip the next step.
11. Type the new password for the user, and then click Change Password.
12. Quit the User Accounts tool, and then restart the computer.

This is directly from MicroSquish. You may want to read the entire page, so here is the link.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;enus;321305

**gonaads** · February 7th, 2004

Question:
Who is the actual Administrator of this computer, you or someone else? Is this computer on a network, if so is it the primary one or...

Again, post a pic of the user accounts window showing all the users.

**muzikool** · February 8th, 2004

Originally Posted by achtungbaby

1. Go to Control panel
2. Click administrative tools
3. Local Security Settings

When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere

And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third

Are you using XP Home edition? I know that there are some differences in the admin tools.

February 2nd, 2004	Top \| #1
achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	password prompt to use XP All of a sudden XP needs a password from me. I managed to get around it and use safe mode to set up a real password so I could use my computer but now I can't figure out how to get rid of it altogether. Any info would be great!

February 4th, 2004	Top \| #7
LeeJend OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2003 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 5,261 Reputation: 3386 Power: 199	Muzikool My wife thanks you. She's been nagging me to turn off the password on her Windows 2000 machine for years. I just left off the "2" - "control userpasswords". Thought for the new millenium: In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? - Open Office - Firefox - Thunderbird - Gimp -Ubuntu - Red Hat -

February 6th, 2004	Top \| #12
gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	In "control panel" when you open up the "user accounts" window, does it look like this (Your account being the blacked out one)? Or do you have another user listed besides those two (such as "Administrator" with no name assigned to it)? (see attachment) *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

February 6th, 2004	Top \| #13
gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	Also if you created a password you could try and do the "change/create password" thing type in your old password and leave the "new password" box empty click "apply" and see if that works. *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

February 6th, 2004	Top \| #14
gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	O.K. Found it. If ya doen't want to enter the password at the welcome menu everytime you boot up yer computer and you tried to disable it in the user accounts (located in the "Control Panel"). And you tried clicking on your account and clicked on "remove my password" and it didn't allow you. Follow this step to remove it. 1. Go to Control panel 2. Click administrative tools 3. Local Security Settings 4. Click Minimum password length 5. Reduce it to 0, No password required 6. Go to user account in control panel click your account and remove password. This will disable the password feature. Works with XP Home, XP Pro, XP Tablet and XP Media. *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

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February 2nd, 2004	Top \| #2
muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Here ya go. Disabling startup login prompt for password 1. Click Start, and Run 2. Type "Control Userpasswords2" and press enter. 3. Uncheck the box for "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer." 4. Click Apply and Ok. Disabling prompt for password after Windows XP resumes from standby or hibernation 1. Click Start, Settings, and Control Panel 2. Double click Power Options 3. Uncheck the "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby" option. 4. Click Apply and then Ok. By the way, great user name!

February 3rd, 2004	Top \| #3
achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	Thanks for the help muzikool !

February 3rd, 2004	Top \| #4
muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Sure thing.

February 4th, 2004	Top \| #5
achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	OK I don't know what the hell is going on. I try to turn off the startup login prompt but it always shows up and even if I try to allow the password it will not let me in. Out of nowhere this started and it keeps getting worse.

February 4th, 2004	Top \| #6
muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Hmm, not quite sure what you're trying to describe here. Does the welcome screen still appear when you boot up? You can turn that off too through the User Accounts in the Control Panel. If you unticked the box saying that users must enter a password and the welcome screen is disabled, then Windows should load straight to your desktop.

February 4th, 2004	Top \| #8
muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Great, didn't even know about it in Win2k. Thanks for posting about it, and your wife is certainly welcome!

February 4th, 2004	Top \| #9
achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	Could the problem be I have an administrator account as well as my own? All I want is for the system to start up to completion without having to enter anything.

February 5th, 2004	Top \| #10
muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Your OS should have an Admin account in addition to your own regardless. Does the Admin account show up on the login (welcome) screen? It usually won't unless you specify that it should. If you always want XP to boot-up to the desktop under your login, then be sure that yours is the only account enabled in the User Accounts section of the Control Panel. If that is the case and you've done everything mentioned above but are still having problems, then I'll see what else I can find out.

February 6th, 2004	Top \| #11
achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	Thanks a lot for your help....In User Accounts I have 3: mine (which says I am an administrator), an administrator account and the guest account which is turned off. When I try to start up a login screen appears and says "administrator" in the username. if I click enter or type anything it won't let me in, saying something about account restrictions. And if I type in my name it won't let me in...even when I tried previously to set up my own password. I have two hard drives on my system...the one I am using now is the previous OS I was using until I installed XP on my second hard drive. This XP was just getting too slow and cluttered. I do plan on removing it from my system as soon as I can get the newly installed one to work OK

February 7th, 2004	Top \| #15
j79zlr Glaanies script monkey Joined: February 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,725 Reputation: 1520 Power: 155	Here's a reg patch that adds control userpasswords2 to the control panel. http://www.j79zlr.com/reg/UserAccounts.php http://www.j79zlr.com

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achtungbaby OSNN Junior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Power: 102	1. Go to Control panel 2. Click administrative tools 3. Local Security Settings When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third

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gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	Originally Posted by achtungbaby 1. Go to Control panel 2. Click administrative tools 3. Local Security Settings When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third Post a pic of it please. also... To log on as Administrator and reset the password: 1. Restart the computer. After the Power On Self Test (POST), press the F8 key. 2. On the Windows Advanced Options menu, use the ARROW keys to select Safe Mode, and then press ENTER. 3. When you are prompted to select the operating system to start, select Microsoft Windows XP edition (where edition is the edition of Windows XP that is installed), and then press ENTER. 4. On the To begin, click your user name screen, click Administrator. 5. Type the administrator password, and then press ENTER. NOTE: In some cases, the Administrator password may be set to a blank password. In this case, do not type a password before you press ENTER. 6. Click Yes to acknowledge that Windows is running in Safe mode. 7. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and then click Control Panel). 8. Click User Accounts. 9. Click the user account whose password you want to change. 10. Click Change the Password if you want to keep a password, or click Remove password if you do not want to use a password. If you remove the password, skip the next step. 11. Type the new password for the user, and then click Change Password. 12. Quit the User Accounts tool, and then restart the computer. This is directly from MicroSquish. You may want to read the entire page, so here is the link. http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;enus;321305 *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

February 7th, 2004	Top \| #18
gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	Question: Who is the actual Administrator of this computer, you or someone else? Is this computer on a network, if so is it the primary one or... Again, post a pic of the user accounts window showing all the users. *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

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muzikool Act your wage. Joined: December 2001 Location: Texas, USA Reputation: Yes, please. Posts: 7,626 Reputation: 2900 Power: 232	Originally Posted by achtungbaby 1. Go to Control panel 2. Click administrative tools 3. Local Security Settings When I go to admin tools I don't see Local Security settings anywhere And, my user accounts page doesn't look like the pic you posted either. I have 3 accounts...one being the guest (turned off), the adminstrator account and my name is the third Are you using XP Home edition? I know that there are some differences in the admin tools.