To begin, Click your user name ???

[ockerb]

Hi
I changed a hard drive around to do some work on it, when I changed it back for some unknown reason I had to activate and register windows again. Since then what happens after a while of inactivity is the subject message and Icon comes up in it's own screen. So to get back to my working screen I have to click my user name. This was not here before, what can I do to not have this happen??
Thanks for your time
Ockerb

 

[linney]

What Screen Saver settings do you have?

Do you have a tick in the "On resume display Welcome Screen" box?

Specifies whether the logon window is displayed when you resume using the computer after the screen saver has started running. If logging on requires a password, you will have to type the password when you resume work.


See these too.

282866 - How to automatically log on to a user account in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;282866

315231 - How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315231&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

XP Home, Eliminate User Login requirement?
thread779-880540

 

[ockerb]

Thanks Linney, that did the trick. So simple but I couldn't work it out