The windows welcome screen doesn't appear ever. I've tried as much as I can think of. Yes, I've tried selecting only the windows welcome box in the user account control. I've been in the registry for some reason to make sure the Theme was on 1 instead of 0. I've given myself a password, but when I did that, the classic logon screen appeared instead of the welcome screen of which i had the box checked for. Why is the classic logon box overriding my decision? I am connected to a network, so that might be part of the problem, but there should be a way around it.
If your using windows xp, you might want to try the free program logon loader. I didn't like the original logon screen and luckily found this program. I have it installed in 3 different computers and is relibale hasn't crash any of my computers. While your at it, might as well change your bootskin with the free program bootskin, also installed in 3 computers and is reliable with no problems so far.
On a Windows XP-based computer that is part of a workgroup and has the Fast User Switching feature enabled, the computer may start without displaying the "Welcome" logon screen.
The Guest account is not relevant when Windows determines if there is only one user without a password. If there is only one user registered on the computer, the "Welcome" logon screen is not displayed before the account is logged on.
You can use the Fast User Switching feature to gain access to the Guest account.
Note that this behavior occurs only if the user account is part of a workgroup (not a domain) and any of the following conditions exist:
- No password is configured for the user account.
- No other users are registered on the computer.
To work around this behavior, either add a second user to the computer or create a password for the user account. This prevents the account from being logged on automatically.
