Bypass the Windows Welcome screen and directly log on to your user account

Maybe its just me, but I find it annoying having to log on to my user account everytime I turn on or restart my computer. Now this tip is really only useful if your computer has one Windows user profile – if it has more doing the following will most likely really frustrate the other users of your computer I know what you are thinking, don’t you even dare …

1. Click on Start
2. Click on Run
3. Type control userpasswords2, and press OK

4. Select your name from the User Accounts window
5. Uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer

6. Fill out you password details (leave blank if you have no password)
7. Press OK and close all windows.

Next time you restart the computer Windows should load straight into your user profile!

Tagged with: user account • welcome screen • windows logon • windows profile • windows user

Filed under: Windows XP

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