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Welcome Screen Question

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Thomas M.

Flightless Bird
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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Bernd

Flightless Bird
-------- Original-Nachricht --------

> 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
 
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Daave

Flightless Bird
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?
 
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Thomas M.

Flightless Bird
In article <OE3HfSx2KHA.5420@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, 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
 
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Daave

Flightless Bird
Thomas M. wrote:
> In article <OE3HfSx2KHA.5420@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, 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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