I love to old way of logging in but to fix this problem

go to "Control Panel" and run "User Accounts"

Under Pick a task click on "Change the way users log on or off" option
in this new screen tick the "Use the Welcome Screen"

for other trouble shootings read the above post by JS

Bob

"Patrick Whittle" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone seen the XP sign-on page start displaying that of previous
> Windows? Instead of having two icons (2-user accounts) on the first screen
> after booting, I now have a Windows dialog window where I have to type
> (rather than clicking my name) my account name; I then click OK. It looks
> like Windows for Workgroups and the older Microsoft Windows.
>
> Any idea of what has happened?