2 questions

1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?

2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
What is the fix?
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#1 Microsoft TweakUI allows you to set autologon for a user.

Nothing on #2

The Doctor wrote:
> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
>
> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
> What is the fix?
>

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:55 +0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
(The Doctor) wrote:

> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?


Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a
user name and password to use this computer."

Or do the same thing with TweakUI.



> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
> What is the fix?


Please help us to help you. What updates? What does "are not install
properly" mean? What happens when you try? If you get an error
message, please quote it verbatim.

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Also, for the future, unrelated questions like these are best asked in
separate messages.


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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:55 +0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:

> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?

Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen.
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use
this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically
in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and
Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]

> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?

You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798

In article <eflh#AAqIHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>,
Kayman <kaymanDeleteThis@operamail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:55 +0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:
>
>> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
>
>Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen.
>To make logon an unattended process:
>Click [Start] [Run] and type control userpasswords2
>Click [OK]
>The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
>On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use
>this computer] check box.
>Click [Apply].
>Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically
>in the dialog box that appears.
>Click [OK].
>Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and
>Off].
>Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]
>

All right will try.

>> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
>
>You cannot install some updates or programs
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798

Well what is happening you see 1 of X then it does not install properly.

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In article <igf714hl9c4l9pmhhh274bbpn96e4muos2@4ax.com>,
Ken Blake, MVP <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:55 +0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
>(The Doctor) wrote:
>
>> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
>
>
>Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
>to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a
>user name and password to use this computer."
>

GOt you.

>Or do the same thing with TweakUI.
>
>
>
>> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
>> What is the fix?
>
>
>Please help us to help you. What updates? What does "are not install
>properly" mean? What happens when you try? If you get an error
>message, please quote it verbatim.
>
>For information on how to make a good newsgroup posting, read
>http://www.dts-l.com/goodpost.htm and
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>Also, for the future, unrelated questions like these are best asked in
>separate messages.
>


All right, the fixes are ready to be installed.

IT hits 1 of X and is not installed.

How do you get around this?

>
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>Please Reply to the Newsgroup


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The Doctor wrote:
> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user
> startup?
>
> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
> What is the fix?

I've read the responses up until now - not bad - but you really haven't
given much of further information concerning #2. Anyway...

For 1...
Automatic Logons:
------
Microsoft method:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231
(Essentially the same... but different place:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/13/ )


Microsoft Method 2:
TweakUI from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx


control userpasswords2 method:
1) Go to the Start Menu and the Run box.
2) Type in the following:

control userpasswords2

now click OK
3) In the new Windows that appears select the account you wish to make the
primary logon.
Now uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password..." box.
4) Hit Apply and a dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the selected
users password.
Click OK when you are done...
------

Hopefully that gets you where you are wanting to be.

It is a *good* thing in the user arena to:
1) Have strong passwords.
2) Have more than one administrator level account (with strong passwords).


For 2...
Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

(Try it even if you did a clean, not repair, installation.)
(Try it even if you performed some sort of restore - not repair install.)
(Try it even if you did an upgrade installation.)
(Try it even if you think nothing there sounds like it applies...)

Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and do a custom scan for updates.
In my opinion, you can safely install everything except the optional
hardware updates.

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MS-MVP
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there seems to be
an obsession for
updates.

if your computer
functions normally,
i wouldn't waste
any time on them.


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"The Doctor" <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user startup?
>
> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
> What is the fix?
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The Doctor wrote:
> 1) How can one bypass the login screen and designate a default user
> startup?
> 2) Some updates for MS are not install properly?
> What is the fix?

db.·.. ><))) ·>` .. . <databaseben> wrote:
> there seems to be
> an obsession for
> updates.
>
> if your computer
> functions normally,
> i wouldn't waste
> any time on them.

Not all updates fix a function one would notice being a problem until it is
too late.

Security updates normally are fixing a problem that can be taken advantage
of by someone other than the main user - sometimes despite (or even because
of) other 'protections' being utilized.

Therefore I would have to say your over-generalized advice might actually
*cause* someone issues they would not have if they had not followed your
advice. ;-)

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But evidently his pc does not work right. Otherwise the updates would
work without problem.

db.·.. ><))) ·>` .. . wrote:
> there seems to be
> an obsession for
> updates.
>
> if your computer
> functions normally,
> i wouldn't waste
> any time on them.
>
>