THE WELCOME COMMITTEE THAT WON'T QUIT

In a previous tip, we showed you how to enable user profiles so that multiple users can use different settings--wallpaper, desktop shortcuts, color schemes, and so on--on the same system: For each user, open the Control Panel, double-click Users, then follow along to complete the Enable Multi-user Settings wizard. From now on, whenever you start Windows 98, you'll get a Welcome to Windows dialog box. To log on, type your user name and password, then click OK.

If you set up user profiles and then disabled them, as described in our last tip--open the Control Panel, select Passwords, select the User Profiles tab, select All Users Of This Computer Use The Same Preferences And Desktop Settings, click OK, and restart your system--you can't help but notice that the Welcome to Windows dialog box still appears every time you start Windows. To make it disappear, simply change the current password to no password.

When you see the Welcome to Windows dialog box, log in using your old user name and password (the one you used when user profiles were enabled). Open the Control Panel and double-click Passwords. On the Change Passwords tab, click the Change Windows Password button. On the Old Password line, enter your password. Press Tab to move down to the New Password line, then press Enter. A dialog box will appear to tell you your password has been successfully changed. Click OK, click Close, and that Welcome to Windows dialog box won't bother you again.

This page Last updated: Monday, 24. May 1999 09:46:59 -0500