Sudden CHange in Sign-on/Sign-Off Protocol

For reasons that I cannot explain, my laptop suddenly changed to a protocol
similar to what I am used to in the office on my non-laptop machine, where it
asks for my password to get in and gives me a selection to sign out where I
am asked to choose among restarting, hibernating, starting with a new
password, etc. I did not knowingly change anything on my laptop to cause it
to do this, and I would like to go back to the way it was before. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.

Dell Latitude D620
Windows XP (version 3)
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

On Oct 16, 8:50*pm, ags <a...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> For reasons that I cannot explain, my laptop suddenly changed to a protocol
> similar to what I am used to in the office on my non-laptop machine, where it
> asks for my password to get in and gives me a selection to sign out whereI
> am asked to choose among restarting, hibernating, starting with a new
> password, etc. *I did not knowingly change anything on my laptop to cause it
> to do this, and I would like to go back to the way it was before. *Any ideas?
> *Thanks a lot.
>
> Dell Latitude D620
> Windows XP (version 3)
> Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

Somehow, your laptop has turned off the 'Use Welcome Screen..' and
reverted to the old "classic" Windows 2000 login screen.

Click on;

1- Start
2- Control Panel
3- User Accounts
4- Change the way users log on or off
5- Make sure a Checkmark is in the square box next to "Use the Welcome
Screen"

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