Welcome screen log-in cursor disappears 2

[geilerts]

When changing users, the log-in cursor for a user disappears often. Re-booting solves the problem. Anybody have an idea of why this happens?

 

[smah]

can you still change users and fields via the TAB key?

 

[guitarzan]

Do you mean that you don't see the cursor in the password box for the user? If so, then yes that happens to me once in a while and really irks me, though I never spent the time to find a cause or solution.

What I do is, keep the CTRL and ALT keys pressed, and press the DEL key twice. This reverts to the "username and password" login screen, I type the username and password and I'm in.

 

[geilerts]

Yes, guitarzan, my cursor does not show up in my username box after my wife logs off. I haven't tried what you do. Smah, I don't know if I can. I'd like to find out what the problem is though.

 

[linney]

Welcome Screen - Users can't type their passwords
thread779-1292591

 

[geilerts]

Thanks to all. It just happened again.

As Linney and guitarzan suggested, I could Ctrl-Alt-Del two times and sign in. But on my machine it is associated with Application Event 1517 and 1524. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837115/en-us

This is a failure of the User Profile Hive to unload. In the above diagnostic, it will show where to downloah UPHClean.msi which may resolve this. I'll see now.

I appreciate your help.

Gary

 

[linney]

UPHclean is OK on XP and works well, make a mental note, however, that if you ever upgrade to Vista that you must uninstall UPHclean, otherwise problems occur as it is not compatible with Vista.