bankrboy30

I think that will work for most people, but for me it has not. I've checked them several times, applied the settings, unchecked them and re-applied tried rebooting and logging on and off or just switching users several times. I think I may have read somewhere that when the PC is a member of a domain, Classic Login is forced and you cannot get the welcome screen. I am in a workgroup for home networking purposes, but I didn't think that qualified as being a member of a domain.

Not to hijack your post, but I am having the same problem. No matter what I do, I get the classic logon screen. I know the vers of XP I am using had some registry tweaks applied and though I was able to turn off autologon via the registry I don't know how to restore the welcome screen. Also I have changed the defaultusername in the registry multiple, multiple times only to have it return to Admin which is just annoying. If anyone out there is really confident with sorting this out as far as m