re: Login Problems
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 3:47 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Vic
(1 messages posted)
Thanks Rada, that worked perfectly!!
Vic
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 3:19 am, rada wrote:
>Hi,
>solve for Win98
>1)run regedit.exe
>2)find following:
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\Real Mode Net
>3)create a new DWORD named AutoLogon and put 1 as value
>4)restart PC
>
>On Monday, August 13, 2001 at 12:50 pm, Coby Wan Kenobi wrote:
>
>>Okay... I posted this in the old Windows 98 forum, but I figured I may as well
>post
>>it here too, since I'm still having the problem in Windows ME.
>>
>>I have three computers on a home network system, with one shared network drive
hosted
>>by my computer, and a shared printer hosted on my step-dad's computer (which will
>>be referred to as "PARENTS"). To be able to acces these resources, one must be
>able
>>to log on to the network when the computer starts. However, on PARENTS, we are
>having
>>problems with the log in prompt.
>>
>>Whenever PARENTS boots up, it will present us with the log in prompt. This may
>be
>>the Windows Network prompt, the Microsoft Family prompt, or the regular Windows
>Login
>>prompt, it makes no difference. After only a fraction of a second, the prompt
is
>>disabled, and Windows automatically logs in as the "Default", or null, user. This
>>is the same as if someone had just hit the "Esc" key at the prompt, and therefore
>>prevents us from accessing the shared resources, until we Log Off, and Log In again.
>>
>>
>>The surprising fact of the matter is that this computer is running on a fresh install.
>> We had these same problems when we were running Windows 98 Second Edition, and
>were
>>hoping that the re-format and upgrade would solve the problem.
>>
>>I have been given a couple bits of advice on this problem sofar. One was to delete
>>a registry key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Network\Real
>>Mode Net\AutoLogon" which does not exist. Another was to create a string "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon\'MustBeValidated
>>= 1'". That key helps by prohibiting the "Default user" login, but still leaves
>>me with the annoyance of having to wait for the computer to process the bad login,
>>click "OK", and then log in as myself.
>>
>>Does anyone have a complete solution to this problem, that will prevent the computer
>>from trying to automatically log on?
>
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