The annoying default logon can be removed even if you did select a password at install time. Type a new username in HKLM/Network/Logon/username and reboot. You'll get the question again whether you want a password. Leave it blank and the logon screen won't reappear. Caveat: this creates a new user profile.

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I think it might be slightly easier to go to Start/Control Panel/ Passwords and then on the Passwords Properties form click the Change Windows Password button. In the pop-up dialogue box enter your old password and then enter a null string (i.e., nothing) as the new password. As I remember (it is a long time since I have had to do this), Windows continues to present the logon screen for a period of time (during which you simply have to return the null string), but eventually gets the message that you don't want to log in with a password and the logon screen no longer appears. (When Microsoft wants you to do something, like log in to your computer with a password, it doesn't give in easily when you try to defy it).


On Saturday, December 24, 2005 at 10:20 am, Tintin wrote:
>The annoying default logon can be removed even if you did select a password at install
>time. Type a new username in HKLM/Network/Logon/username and reboot. You'll get the
>question again whether you want a password. Leave it blank and the logon screen won't
>reappear. Caveat: this creates a new user profile.
>

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