That's the usual way XP works, to have you logon. But with tweakui for xp (free download from Microsoft) you can implement autologon.
But please realise what happens if your Windows account gets corrupted one day, so the autologon logs in into a corrupted account and you can't run regedit or tweakui again to undo it and login into your spare administrator account. Then you must go back to your latest working image or do a clean reinstall of XP. That is kind of risky.
Kees
Hi,
on start up XP home in my Acer netbook the "Log On to windows" comes up.
Where the user name is it shows "user" & no password shown.
By pressing OK it continues the boot up.
I never asked to log on & this started the last few months.
Any way to stop this happening?

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