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    All of a sudden, my log-in screen for windows isn't appearing any longer. I see the screen that has the same background and says 'Welcome', but then it goes straight to loading the desktop. What would cause this?

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    Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change The Way Users Log On And Off -> and tick Use Welcome Screen.



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    also, if you've only got one user account on your machine (aside from 'Administrator'), and no password for that account, it will bypass the login/welcome screen.

    There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by motherflux
    also, if you've only got one user account on your machine (aside from 'Administrator'), and no password for that account, it will bypass the login/welcome screen.
    Not so. I've been the only user on this pc for a year and a half and I've always had to click the user icon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iMartin
    Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change The Way Users Log On And Off -> and tick Use Welcome Screen.
    If I do that, it requires me to type a logon name. It's not that its a pain or that I'm trying to get rid of it, I want to know why it has stopped all of a sudden.

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    you have prolly been messin with tweak UI, and set it to log you on automatically..........

    Logon->autologon-> uncheck "log on automatically at startup" (this isnt advised to have on anyway, since it brings a security risk with it)

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    Unless it came with a Windows automatic update, and did it by itself, that's not it.

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    XP by default goes straight to the desktop if there's only one user with no password, so I don't know why you should see the welcome screen with that setup.

    Set a password and reboot.
    Then try removing that password ans see if it fixes it.

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