re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' Monday, December 26, 2005 at 8:14 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Baher (26 messages posted) i booted of a ME startup disk and none of the drive letters seemed to be the one for the OS so i couldnt go to c:windows,security,database..etc on the troublesome computer. I took the HD out and put it in my good computer and copied the secedit.sdb file from my HD to the replace the one on the bad HD. Put that bad HD back in its machine and still the same problem... also, when i pressed "s" after pressing f6 on the winxp setup screen, it said "insert a manufacturer diskette" or some kind and i didnt get the option to do NTAccess at all.....NTAccess also doesnt appear to be on the XP disk...i would expect it to be an executeable of some kind on the cd, but i'm not sure it works that way...Thanks! On Monday, November 14, 2005 at 3:15 pm, Sal wrote: >Hi, > > >1. Boot with a DOS disk. > >2. Navigate to the %SystemRoot%\Security\Database folder using the DOS commands. > >3. Rename Secedit.sdb to Secedit.old_sdb. > >4. Copy an operational Secedit.sdb from a Windows platform of the same type. Local >computer, not server. > >5. Shutdown and restart the problem computer. > >Good luck, >Sal > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Sal: Monday, November 14, 2005 at 3:15 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Baher: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:09 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Bruce Johnson: Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 5:55 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (mutalib: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 8:53 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (stealthterminal: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 10:33 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (arthur: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 8:21 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Sal: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 12:05 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (David Wild: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 12:10 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Sal: Mon, Nov 14, 2005, 3:15 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Baher: Mon, Dec 26, 2005, 8:14 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Baher: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 10:09 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Bruce Johnson: Thu, Apr 6, 2006, 5:55 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (delete: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 2:05 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Sal: Fri, Aug 19, 2005, 12:00 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off the password screen when Windows Starts?' (Faruk: Thu, Jul 17, 2003, 10:31 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum