Stupid windows..... question

MuGen · 03-01-2006, 12:44 AM

Yes that was going to be my second alternative..

If you set a password for your user / even if it is the only user, it will ask to log in.

Canyarion · 03-01-2006, 04:04 AM

No password. I'm sure, because I could just hit enter when it asked me for a password.

It happened out of the blue.

MuGen · 03-01-2006, 03:20 PM

To reach the RAW control panel for User accounts and check what settings you have click START, then RUN..

type in

'Control Userpasswords2' without the quotes

then it should bring up User Account Settings and there should be a checkbox saying "Users must enter username and password to use this computer"

Uncheck that.... unfortunately when you go into Control Panel, into User Accounts... they don't have the option to disable it even though... they SHOULD have the option in there.... I guess it's the whole GUI microsoft was trying to go for.... Try that and see if it works.

Canyarion · 03-01-2006, 04:35 PM

I've changed it, but I don't wanna bother to reboot to check. Thanks a lot, I'm pretty sure this will solve it.

But how could it ever have changed?

Dyne · 03-01-2006, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canyarion

I've changed it, but I don't wanna bother to reboot to check. Thanks a lot, I'm pretty sure this will solve it.

But how could it ever have changed?

It changed for me because of a virus program I installed once.

Computers are very random machines; this kind of stuff happens all the time. No use being sad over it.

Canyarion · 03-02-2006, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canyarion

I'm pretty sure this will solve it.

It didn't.

Even worse, it now gives an error. And 1 time the PC just stopped booting up and I had to reset.

Canyarion · 03-02-2006, 09:59 AM

Bah. It stopped during start-up 3 times in a row, so now I'm operating in safe mode. I switched back the last changed option, I hope that will improve some things.

After that, I'll run some anti-malware etc.

MuGen · 03-02-2006, 12:18 PM

It's definitely some sort of program doing this. Changing a general UI option in Windows shouldn't cause an error or cause the computer to have boot problems... if it does then thats a serious bug in Windows...

Hopefully it's not and it's a malware you can remove.