login screen

Occasionally when I try to log in, there's a long delay before I can type in the password. By long delay, I mean 3-5 minutes. During this delay, the login screen is completely unresponsive. I can't click on anything on the screen. The keyboard appears to be responsive - caps lock/num lock lights...

Hello all I got a Dell Venue 11 pro running Windows 8.1. A couple of days ago my Dell tablet startet acting up. Whenever i turned it on the login screen appears. I type my password but after that i cant do anything. If i try going to the normal windows desktop i only see the wallpapar. No...

This has been bugging me for some time now so I finally decided to post. When I start my computer up it always stops at the login screen asking for a password and I do not have a password so all I do is click enter on my keyboard and it finishes booting me into Windows 7 so how can I get rid of...

Hi I want to know how can I hide a user account in the login screen. User is in an “Active Directory”. I know to do this , I need change some registry keys : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList But this method not work when system...

I really don't like the default logins for my windows 8.1 computer, as in I select a user from a list and it pops up a new screen and you enter the password then login. I would much prefer you type in the username, and then type the password. I am wondering if there is someway to do that through...

Last week when Microsoft released build 10041 of the Windows 10 Technical Preview to Windows Insiders there was a laundry list of know issues with the Fast Ring build. Well you can now mark one of them off the list with the release of a fix labeled Knowledge Base Article KB3050653 according to...

hello! i am trying to disable numlock on my login screen (Windows 8.1), so i went to regedit and the initialkeyboardindicators key was at two, and doing a google search told me i need to change it to 0, i tried changing it to 0 and then restarted my pc and numlock was still on, so i went back to...

Hi, I've had a previous problem about my administration account but that is now fixed, but for some reason when I turned on my PC the next day, The login screen for windows does not show up on my monitor, and a msg from the TV says 'Could not receive a signal from PC' , I've checked multiple...

I have 3 email accounts on my Windows 8.1 machine as setup in the mail app. One of them, my gmail account, is old and no longer used. In fact, I can't log in to it. Going to the right, and 'settings', then 'accounts' lists the email accounts I have. Clicking on one of the 'good' accounts...

I'd like to understand how a normal boot displays running Windows 7. Is there a period where the screen is basically black between the "Starting Windows" logo and the login screen? I typically get a black screen for up to 10 seconds prior to logging in. I did discover yesterday that the Event...

Hi, I've just upgraded to 8.1. I was always able to login as a different user and use my work network user credentials i.e. workgroup\username. On this version I can do this. I can only add users once logged in and switch between them on the login screen. This version doesn't show the 'login...

I have Googled with great frustration and cannot find a way to put a better background there. It's that kind-of upside-down rainbow.... grrr. You click on it. Then comes the blue screen where I have to put in my 8-digit password. How does a guy change that rainbow..?

I have a computer clean installed with Windows 8.1 Pro, it had Windows 7 installed on it but I formated it and installed Windows 8. Anyways, boot time is very fast as the Fast Boot helps it make it fast, of course. But after booting a day later without going on it, it shows the boot screen...

We have a single domain environment with Windows 7 64bit clients. Some of our users have to "CLICK INTO THE PASSWORD FIELD" after they hit ctrl-alt-delete when they login. Is there a way to save users the step of having to click into the Password Field before they enter their password? (The...

Hi, i just updated my Windows 8.1 when I restarted my PC. When I was going to login, it was just a black screen. If you are in the login screen, the selected language in the right left corner and the internet connection in the left corner. Both of those two signs are flickering in the corners...

Hello all, I am trying to reset my Windows 7 password using the command prompt function. I restart my computer Press F8 On the Advanced Boot Options Screen -- Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt Loading Windows Files screen appears, and scrolls through filenames. Then - the Login window...

I updated my HP laptop from Win 8 to 8.1, on the Win 8 no login. After Win 8.1 boots there is the opening screen, which I hit the esc key to clear and than put in my pin in the box. Then it gives me the opening screen again, back to the login screen and back to the opening screen and then to the...

When I boot the pc (or get out of sleep mode) I want to see the login screen, like on win 7. I don;t want to see that multicolourfull lollipop screen which you need to click again to get to the login screen. How to skip the splashscreen on boot?

Hello So this week a purchased a new laptop [Asus N550JV], after installing the updates and updating the drivers it worked fine until... this morning I wanted to wake it from sleep mode. The log-in screen was a bit different, in the way that there was no way to log in: it just showed my name...

I have an issue with getting a completely black screen. I never see a desktop. I never even see the login screen. If I press the sleep button on the case, then start it back up, I see a mouse pointer too. But on first boot, there is no mouse pointer. Booting in safe mode has the exact same...