removing the welcome screen from start up.

**stevieg** · 03-15-2005, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by djmickyg

i hope im not pointing out something that everyone already knows..

i been tring to remove the big blue welcome screen from the start of xp and i finally did it.

firstly goto

start > settings > control pannel > user accounts

then in that window click "change the way users log on or off"
then unclick the 2 boxes.
usally this would remove the welcome screen but ask u to put in ur passwords and name..
so do this

goto
start > run > type "control userpasswords2"

in this window. make sure the user that u use is highlited and then unclick the "users must enter a user name and password..." tab

and thats that. no more wlecome screen

Even better with Minlogon you miss out *everything* - straight to desktop (or your frontend as shell) after the black windows screen

**scaccess** · 03-16-2005, 02:59 PM

Check out Navigator 4. It runs on windows or linux with voice as well.

www.directions.ltd.uk

**looneeii** · 03-24-2005, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by scaccess

Check out Navigator 4. It runs on windows or linux with voice as well.

www.directions.ltd.uk

Only for the UK?

**MaleBuffy** · 04-11-2005, 01:34 PM

Dont want the Welcome Screen? Just use ONE user account and it will go straight to the desktop. SP1 and SP2 create a second hidden user account ASP.NET which, if you wont do any programming....you wont be needing it! So delete it, make sure that the GUEST account is deactivated and there you go...no 3rd party software no nothing!

P.S. Make sure that you have the option with the welcome screen enabled. Dont know why but it just works this way!

Tara

**SFiorito** · 04-11-2005, 03:48 PM

for you linux guys, have any of you used GPSDrive? http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/

I'm not much of a linux person, but I may mess around with it after I finally finish my current setup.

**linuxguy** · 04-11-2005, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by kevlar

And if we had a quality navigation package for Linux, we'd all be switching to a Linux SVGA framebuffer frontend to have fast boot times, and fully custom boot screens with no interferance from Washington.

working soooo hard to achieve....im doing a frontend in QTembedded (nowhere near a release, so dont ask, i stay fairly busy)... im so close to breaking down and writing my own GPS app, but its so much work...

**H3nrY** · 04-14-2005, 12:19 PM

1 - start / run / msconfig

2 - goto : boot.ini

3 - check box : /noguiboot

4 - reboot en no more windows xp boot screen

**chuck404** · 12-31-2006, 11:01 AM

Help--I may have done something bad. My computer was working just fine except for the welcome screen kept coming up. I had disabled all passwords prior to that--even the administrator password. But after I made the changes suggested by "djmickyg", who I know is trying to help, my computer boots up and is asking for the Adminstrator password again. I put in the old one, nothing works. I left it blank, and clicked cancel, and nothing works. I can't even boot up to safe mode to undo the changes I made to "userpasswords2". Using F8 goes to a safe mode, but once there, the only thing that pops up is the dialog box asking for the Administrator password again.

If there is a way to get into windows safe mode again, I can remove the changes I made. Any suggestions out there? Thanks, Chuck----can either post or email directly to me at Chuck404@aol.com.

**Pistolen08** · 12-31-2006, 12:11 PM

use erdcommander locksmith to reset the admin password
or
use ophcrack to crack the admin password
or
use bartpe to repair what you broke
or
use knoppix to repair what you broke

**proximo** · 12-31-2006, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by chuck404

Help--I may have done something bad. My computer was working just fine except for the welcome screen kept coming up. I had disabled all passwords prior to that--even the administrator password. But after I made the changes suggested by "djmickyg", who I know is trying to help, my computer boots up and is asking for the Adminstrator password again. I put in the old one, nothing works. I left it blank, and clicked cancel, and nothing works. I can't even boot up to safe mode to undo the changes I made to "userpasswords2". Using F8 goes to a safe mode, but once there, the only thing that pops up is the dialog box asking for the Administrator password again.

If there is a way to get into windows safe mode again, I can remove the changes I made. Any suggestions out there? Thanks, Chuck----can either post or email directly to me at Chuck404@aol.com.

You said you left it blank and clicked cancel. Tried blank password and OK?