Symptom: The first log on is always normal after a reboot. When you log off
from one user to another there is no flashing cursor or insertion point to
enter the password on the welcome screen. This is intermittent happening
about 25% of the time. I have not noticed the problem when using the “switch
user” mode.
The work around for this is to push Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to bring up the
Ctrl+Alt+Del log on screen where you enter the name and the password. Also if
the user account does not have a password you can log on by just clicking on
the user name. It is only a problem if a password is required to log on.
I first noticed this problem about a year ago when I installed XP on an
older system. I thought that computer had a corrupted file or something but
then the problem showed up on my other computers. I have had no luck finding
a solution to this problem. After several hours of searching the internet, I
have found only a couple other postings on other forums on this problem. No
one has had a definite solution to the problem. One person said they thought
it was caused after the update KB923191 was installed. I have not tried to
uninstall that update to verify this. I have not found any information on
this problem at the Microsoft website.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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Regards,
Daniel Martín
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience
"ABQMAN" <ABQ...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2531298C-F6D7-4F04...@microsoft.com...
It is unfortunate that Microsoft does not put a higher priority to try and
fix this problem. It appears to be a very common problem but only a few
people have reported it. I think that if a poll was taken and all Windows XP
users were asked if they had experienced this log on problem there would
probably be thousands that say they have this problem.
Why does Microsoft offer the “Fast User Switching” feature if you can’t take
advantage of it because it is not working correctly. You might as well
configure the computer to use the Ctrl+Alt+Del log on because you waste so
much time trying to log on when the Fast User Switching is not working
correctly.
>It is unfortunate that Microsoft does not put a higher priority to try and
>fix this problem. It appears to be a very common problem but only a few
>people have reported it.
How do you know it is "fairly common" if only a few people report it?
I've been monitoring this group since Oct. 2001... your problem is the
first time I can recall seeing mention of it?
In my line of work, I am responsible for maintaining the hardware, as well
as, the software on computers. I occasionally have a customer ask me about
the login problem they have on their home computer. When I ask if they have
reported the problem, they say no.
Since it is an intermittent problem most people don’t become concerned about
it until it happens more often. As I said earlier, my home computers now have
the problem about 25% of the time. After reading other posts on the problem I
found on the web, it seems to have started about 1.5 to 2 years ago probably
due to a security update from Microsoft. For some reason some computers
exhibit the problem more than others possibly due to the version of Office
they have or some other programs installed. No one seems to know right now.
Thank you.
People that do not set their news reader program to include original message in the reply leave a
lot of us out in the dark as to what you were talking about. i.e. look at the example above. No
clue as to what rsm92 was referring to.
he's not using a news reader - he's using google groups.
Bill
Hey Richard in AZ. The title of this discussion thread is "Can not
enter password at welcome screen". Does that bring some light or some
clue into what the answer was referring to?
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Dani
Dani wrote:
Press tab twice
I pressed tab twice and I noticed that focus moved but I never got
blinking cursor... after pressing tab numerous times and trying to
enter without password clicking on green arrow, XP freezes for some
time... I pressed ctrl+alt+canc to use normal logon window and it was
freezed with only cancel button not gray.
I waited and then it come back to normal status and I was able to enter
using username and password. :frown:
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Dani
Humm, is there some third party software firing up in the background at
boot time?
I don't know what "firing up" means :confused:... does it mean disturb
or work or crash? :redface:
How can I analyze third party software at boot time?
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Dani
Dani wrote:
"firing up" = "starting". Some software may be interfering with the
Windows user interface. What programs start before you log on to the PC?
Go to Start, Run, MSCONFIG and look on the "Services" tab for
"Non-Microsoft" items.
Services running on my system are:
- Antivirus components (AVG7 Alert Manager Server, AVG7 Update Service,
AVG E-mail Scanner)
- NVIDIA Display Driver Service
There are also Adobe LM Service and Servizio di condivisione in rete
Windows Media Player but they're stopped by me.
I think *this is a Windows problem because it does the same in virtual
machine too, without any non-microsoft service installed!!*
Anyway, some time before I restarted my machine and welcome screen was
freezed... I restarted it again pushing the button and it was freezed
again... another time... the same result!
I had to shut down, wait a minute, restart and then I could logon :mad:
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Dani
Dani wrote:
It's not normal, and I have never seen this occur with any of the PC's I
work around. You can be mad, but until you can determine what is
interfering and remove it, it will likely keep happening. Try stopping
the "AVG" services.
I'll try that solution and then I'll do a lot of logon-logout... then
I'll post here.
Oh, a question OT about english: login is the same as username and
logon is the login procedure? Or they mean different things? thanks.
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