Stupid windows..... question

Canyarion · 02-27-2006, 07:07 PM

Suddenly my computer requires me to log in.

I didn't change any options that I know of and now I can't find out how to change it back.

I want my PC to boot up without me. I am the only user so I don't need those stupid account thingy. No clicking on names, no entering of passwords..... just boot up my PC.

Where do I change this? I have found the user accounts options, but no useful option so far.

Thanks!
And this time I won't answer myself because I'm going to sleep!

MuGen · 02-27-2006, 08:56 PM

Control Panel

Accounts

Pick a task... Change the way users log on or off

done...

Teuthida · 02-27-2006, 10:47 PM

I have the same problem as of late and doing that doesn't help. I either get screen to put in password or screen to click on username. I can't just have computer start up without either of those now and changing how users log on/off only lets switch between those two options.

jeepnut · 02-27-2006, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Teuthida

I have the same problem as of late and doing that doesn't help. I either get screen to put in password or screen to click on username. I can't just have computer start up without either of those now and changing how users log on/off only lets switch between those two options.

Same here. Been happening for awhile.

Canyarion · 02-28-2006, 05:25 PM

Yeah same here. MuGen, that's the first thing I tried, it doesn't help.

Null?

bobcat · 02-28-2006, 09:24 PM

Normally that happens when you enable a password for your user.

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

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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

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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.

Angrist · 05-08-2007, 03:56 AM

More than a year later I still have the same problem. Because I removed some malware a while back, I thought I could try to fix the problem again, but to no avail.

If so many people have this problem, shouldn't we know by now now to fix it?

Today I couldn't boot up my PC because I had changed my settings (until I alt-tabbed and found the login screen behínd the bootup screen).