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| Thread ID: 35845 | 2003-07-23 08:39:00 | Windows XP Pro Splash Screens | tandy (3109) | Press F1 |
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| 162268 | 2003-07-23 08:39:00 | Earlier today my XP Pro system starting asking me if I wanted to update my logon password. I do not have an adminstrator as my PC is a standalone unit. Also at about the same time the 'Welcome' splash screen now takes about 3 minutes to disappear where it used to be only tens of seconds. Are these two problems related and is this problem fixable. I have not downloaded anything off the Net in the past two weeks I regularly do scans for spyware and viruses. I am doing a scan for spyware right now. Is there anything in the registry that I can access to reduce the amount of time that these annoying spalsh screens are visible. I would ideally like to remove them altogether. TIA |
tandy (3109) | ||
| 162269 | 2003-07-24 03:21:00 | > Is there anything in the registry that I can access > to reduce the amount of time that these annoying > spalsh screens are visible. I would ideally like to > remove them altogether. You can remove the XP splash screen by editing the boot.ini file. An easy way of doing this is to go Start > Run > msconfig. Then click on the boot.ini tab and put a tick beside /SOS. Click Apply and OK. This will disable the splash screen. To return the splash screen just go back and remove the tick. The fact that your system is now taking much longer to boot is another matter. Regarding the logon password update, do you use a password to access your user account. If you are the only user, and only have one user account then you will automatically be an Computer Administrator. You can see this by going into Control Panel > User Accounts and looking at your account details. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 162270 | 2003-07-24 03:44:00 | Jen, Thank you for taking the time to answer my query. Last evening whilst I was waiting for the welcome spalsh screen to go away I pressed Alt Esc and came up with the logon password window. I played around with the passwords until I found the one that was correct and updated it and lo and behold my machine is back to normal, but anyway thank you the tip on removing splash screens. I will be putting that into practice tonight. |
tandy (3109) | ||
| 162271 | 2003-07-24 03:49:00 | Ticking the /SOS option should have the effect of displaying all the driver files as they are loaded, probably not a desired outcome? | godfather (25) | ||
| 162272 | 2003-07-24 03:59:00 | Yes, with the /SOS switch you do get to see the "behind the scenes" text instead of the static splash screen. Depends upon which Tandy prefers in the end I guess :) | Jen C (20) | ||
| 162273 | 2003-07-24 11:40:00 | Turning off the 'welcome' screen is easy, and usually increases boot times dramatically. Control Panel -> User accounts -> Change the way people log on or off. Untick 'Use the welcome screen'. Also do a little test, you should find that it takes 1/2 the time to fully boot into windows and everything loaded in the SystemTray. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 162274 | 2003-07-24 11:42:00 | *decreases! | PoWa (203) | ||
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