Welcome Screen Question

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Windows XP Pro SP3



I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She likes

the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen and Fast

User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I would like to

lock her down to a standard user account. However, I find that when I

remove her account from the local Administrators group, it no longer

appears as one of the options on the Welcome screen. If I add the

account back to the local Administrators group, it reappears on the

Welcome screen.



Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?



Thanks for any help that you can offer.



--Tom
 
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> Windows XP Pro SP3

>

> I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She likes

> the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen and Fast

> User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I would like to

> lock her down to a standard user account. However, I find that when I

> remove her account from the local Administrators group, it no longer

> appears as one of the options on the Welcome screen. If I add the

> account back to the local Administrators group, it reappears on the

> Welcome screen.

>

> Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

>

> Thanks for any help that you can offer.

>

> --Tom

>



Is the account a member of at least one other group ?



Bernd
 
Thomas M. wrote:

> Windows XP Pro SP3

>

> I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She

> likes the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen

> and Fast User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I

> would like to lock her down to a standard user account. However, I

> find that when I remove her account from the local Administrators

> group, it no longer appears as one of the options on the Welcome

> screen. If I add the account back to the local Administrators group,

> it reappears on the Welcome screen.

>

> Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

>

> Thanks for any help that you can offer.



This is typical behavior whenever you are in Safe Mode. If you are not

in Safe Mode, perhaps the profile is corrupted. Why not set up a new

profile?
 
In article , daave@example.com

says...

>

> Thomas M. wrote:

> > Windows XP Pro SP3

> >

> > I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She

> > likes the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen

> > and Fast User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I

> > would like to lock her down to a standard user account. However, I

> > find that when I remove her account from the local Administrators

> > group, it no longer appears as one of the options on the Welcome

> > screen. If I add the account back to the local Administrators group,

> > it reappears on the Welcome screen.

> >

> > Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user account?

> >

> > Thanks for any help that you can offer.

>

> This is typical behavior whenever you are in Safe Mode. If you are not

> in Safe Mode, perhaps the profile is corrupted. Why not set up a new

> profile?



Thanks for the reply.



I am not in Safe Mode. I have two other profiles that I have used for

testing, all the behavior is the same on all of them--if I remove the

account from the local Administrators group it disappears from the

Welcome screen. Everything else is working fine.



I'm working with a new hard drive and a fresh build of Windows from

scratch, all patched up to date. Also, I am not using any boot managers

or anything of that sort. It's just your average plain vanilla single

OS system.



--Tom
 
Thomas M. wrote:

> In article , daave@example.com

> says...

>>

>> Thomas M. wrote:

>>> Windows XP Pro SP3

>>>

>>> I recently set up a computer for my mother who is in her 70s. She

>>> likes the look and feel of the login process when the Welcome screen

>>> and Fast User Switching are enabled, so I've enabled both. Now I

>>> would like to lock her down to a standard user account. However, I

>>> find that when I remove her account from the local Administrators

>>> group, it no longer appears as one of the options on the Welcome

>>> screen. If I add the account back to the local Administrators

>>> group, it reappears on the Welcome screen.

>>>

>>> Is there a way to use the Welcome screen with a standard user

>>> account?

>>>

>>> Thanks for any help that you can offer.

>>

>> This is typical behavior whenever you are in Safe Mode. If you are

>> not in Safe Mode, perhaps the profile is corrupted. Why not set up a

>> new profile?

>

> Thanks for the reply.

>

> I am not in Safe Mode. I have two other profiles that I have used for

> testing, all the behavior is the same on all of them--if I remove the

> account from the local Administrators group it disappears from the

> Welcome screen. Everything else is working fine.

>

> I'm working with a new hard drive and a fresh build of Windows from

> scratch, all patched up to date. Also, I am not using any boot

> managers or anything of that sort. It's just your average plain

> vanilla single OS system.



Perhaps this post will help, Tom:



http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin/msg/624de7857d121459?hl=en
 
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