Windows 98 Shutdown problem

First, the AUTOLOGON problem....

THIS IS THE CORRECT INFO

To have Windows automatically logon at startup follow these steps:

1. Use the right mouse button to click Network Neighborhood, and then click Properties on the menu that appears.
2. On the Configuration tab, click Windows Logon in the Primary Network Logon box, and then click OK. [If you don't have a network client enabled, this will already be set to Windows Logon.]
3. If you are prompted to restart your computer at this point, click No.
4. In Control Panel, double-click Passwords.
5. Click the Change Passwords tab, click Change Windows Password, and then click OK.
6. In the Change Windows Password dialog box, type your current Windows password in the Old Password box. Leave the New Password and Confirm New Password boxes blank, click OK, and then click OK again. This will create a null password.
7. Restart your computer, a logon box will appear, enter a username if you wish to override the default presented, but otherwise you need only click on the OK button to continue. DO NOT enter a password and DO NOT click on CANCEL. If you do, you'll have to this stuff all over again.

Now comes the bad news.... sometimes none of the stuff we just told you about works! That's because Windows has several software bugs (Microsoft calls these "features") that can also cause the grayed out password problem or worse... the save password box can be checked, but it still does not remember your HiWAAY password. There are two work arounds you can try.... Work-around #1: Sometimes the Windows password file is damaged. Use the Windows file finderto locate and delete or rename your password list file. The file is named Username.pwl, where Username is the name you use to log on to Windows, and should be located in the Windows folder. After you delete or rename the file, restart.

Work-around #2: This involves editing the system registry. Whenever editing the system registry, potential exists for severely damaging your configuration so proceed with great care. Click on the "START" button and select "Run". Type in "REGEDIT" In the order below click on the following:

1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
2. Software
3. Microsoft
4. Windows
5. CurrentVersion
6. Network
7. Real Mode Net

After clicking on "Real Mode Net" look for "autologon" with a value of 00 or 01. (The value doesn't matter.) Delete autologon and close the window and restart.

Once you have performed one or both sets of work around steps and restarted, you will have to create a user profile and logon. Just start over with this document to make sure your user logons are enabled and you have properly logged on to Windows

delete the PWL file! got through the password motions!!

the "YOU CAN NOW SAFELY TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER" - problem I fixed with

Uncheck START GUI AUTOMATICALLY...

batch file win.bat starts and inside it CALL WIN98.bat then at the end it runs ATXOFF

Re: Can't get autologon to work

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Did you make sure all of these things were done first in order

for the tweakui to work im pretty sure these things have to be done first


Disabling Windows XP Logon screen:

There are four conditions necessary to disable the Windows Logon screen:

1 There must be only two accounts on the computer, the administrator and the guest account.
2 There must be no password for the administrator account.
3 The guest account must be turned off.
4 The welcome screen must be turned on.


First step: is delete all user accounts except the administrator and guest accounts. Note: Windows XP requires that at least one account must be an administrative account; also you cannot delete the guest account. When you delete user accounts, their email and favorites will be lost, so you must export or back up this information if you wish to save it. Windows will give you the option of saving the user's desktop and "My Documents" to a new folder on your desktop under the deleted accounts name.

To delete accounts, logon as administrator then click start/ settings/ control panel and click user accounts. Then click "change an account" Click on the account you want to delete, then click delete account. Here is where you have the option to save that account's "My documents" folder and desktop. If you wish to keep these files click "Keep files", if not click "Delete files". Do this for all accounts except the administrator and the guest account.


Step two: is to remove the password from the administrator account. Note: You need only follow this step if you administrator account is password protected. To determine if your administrator account is password protected, simple look for the words, “Password protected" Under the accounts name. To do this follow the instructions in step one to reach user accounts in the control panel. Click on the administrator account and then click "Remove my password". You will be prompter to enter your password on the next screen. Enter your password then click, "Remove password"

Step three: Turning off the guest account. Navigate back to "User accounts" in the control panel. If the guest account is turned on click it then click on "Turn off the guest account"

Step four: Turning on the welcome screen. Navigate back to the "user account screen" as described above. Click "Change the way users log on or off" Then make sure there is a check mark next to "Use the welcome screen". Then click "Apply options". Note: Leaving "Use the welcome screen" unchecked will bring up the enter password screen during boot up, even though you have previously deleted the password from your account.

Thanks, Jayj24.

You got it, the problem was a third user account. QuickBooks Point of Sale makes it's own user account for some reason. When I deleted the QBPOS user account, the login worked fine. The next time I ran QBPOS, it made another account and auto login no longer works. I guess I've got a catch 22 here and we'll just have to live with it.

Thanks again,

knewitt

Re: Can't get autologon to work

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When you use the control userpasswords2 are you selecting the orginal administrator account to autologin.

Cause even with two other user accounts on my PC that control userpasswords2 works for me to autologin.

Make sure that when you uncheck the user must enter a user name and password to use this computer. and then hit apply that the user is Administrator

Also make sure you enter in the password you set your administrator account too.


If you have not set one for the administrator account then you can by

right click mycomputer icon > manage > localusers and groups > users > right click on administrator account > set password >

set the password

Hope that works remember what ever you set your administrator password too use that when you have to enter in the password for the user controlpasswords2


Re: Can't get autologon to work

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When you use the control userpasswords2 are you selecting the orginal administrator account to autologin.

Cause even with two other user accounts on my PC that control userpasswords2 works for me to autologin.

Make sure that when you uncheck the user must enter a user name and password to use this computer. and then hit apply that the user is Administrator

Also make sure you enter in the password you set your administrator account too.


If you have not set one for the administrator account then you can by

right click mycomputer icon > manage > localusers and groups > users > right click on administrator account > set password >

set the password

Hope that works remember what ever you set your administrator password too use that when you have to enter in the password for the user controlpasswords2


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Yes, the Win98 logon "feature" is a pain. It is activated when you install any network drivers or dial-up networking. I couldn't get it to go away using TweakUI either.

I found a solution in Windows 98 Annoyances (David Karp, O'Reilly Press) under the heading "Get Rid of the Logon Screen". They suggest trying any of the following:

Choose Windows Logon as the Primary Network Logon in the Network control panel, reboot.

and/or

Open the Password control panel, and click change windows password. Enter your password (if you have one), and leave the new password blank).

If neither of these work, you can try the following (I had to), but be warned: this solution requires you to edit the registry. I've tried very hard to not make a typo below, but editing the registry is inherently dangerous.

Open the Registry Editor (start menu, run, regedit).
Find and open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon.

If it's not already present (it wasn't in mine), create a new value called (ignore all quotes - I've just included them for clarity here) "Process Logon Script" (select "New" then "Binary Value" from the "Edit" menu). Double-click on this newly-created entry (or on an existing one) and change it's data value from 00 00 00 00 to 01 00 00 00. Save the entry and reboot. I did this *and* set my Primary Network Logon to Windows Logon (see above) and, finally, never saw that annoying "feature" again...

Good luck, and be careful in the registry...


Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana....

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