login screen

Hi, I just bought a new ultrabook and I love its SSD and instant-resume. What I don't love, is that it instantly resumes to the login screen. I have only a single user account, with no password associated with it, and yet I'm still unable to find a way for my computer to skip the login screen...

I m using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64bit. I was installed 'Windows 8 Transformation Pack 2.0' & uxpatcher a at same time. Then I removed quickly Windows 8 Transformation Pack 2.0'. Then i got msg restart windows. I restarted windows,but i got logon screen animation of windows 8. Then I saw in...

I just got a new Hp Pavilion dv7 laptop with a finger print scanner. Its pretty nice, except that when I get to the login page for windows, it shows a picture of a finger print instead of my user pic. i found out that the image for the fingerprint scanner is part of a file called...

In this edition of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to change Windows 7's Logon screen wallpaper. Link Removed

Hi all, I hope this is the correct forum for the problem I am having. I looked at a few pages of other similar problems but none seem the same as mine. So my lenovo sl510 laptop is now not showing a login screen after boot. I could hear the login chime and login but no screen. Its as if the...

Hello, I would like to create a new user for programming purposes i.e the user will have access to computer resources only through applications I plan to write. Such a user should not be able to log in from main Win7 logon screen - in fact, the user should not even be listed on that page. Is it...

A couple of weeks ago my computer started to randomly freeze up, anywhere from immediately after the login screen to 2+ hrs of uptime. Now, I can't get past the login screen without the computer freezing. I'm able to get into safe mode without any errors, and after some research I've done the...

If you are responsible for managing Windows 7 systems that are open to the public or have multiple user accounts, you may want to add a warning message to the logon screen. You may also want to display logon statistics on the logon screen. Fortunately, doing so is easily accomplished by tweaking...

Hi, is there a way to be able to click Switch User and have Windows 7 automatically move to the other user's desktop? I want to bypass the small additional hassle of having to click on the other user's account in the "logon" screen. Obviously this would only make sense on systems with two users...

If you’re bored with being greeted by the same blue Windows 7 login screen as everyone else, customising it is pretty easy. With a few free tools, you can have a login screen all your own. (more…) Link Removed

# customization If you're bored with being greeted by the same blue Windows 7 login screen as everyone else, customizing it is pretty easy. With a few free tools, you can have a login screen all your own. More » More...

Link Removed We have our first set of Windows 8 Wallpapers! The Windows 8 Transformation Pack is from the same team who pulled together some of the early Windows 7 Wallpapers. Within the pack are are Windows 8 Wallpapers and Windows 8 Login Screen backgrounds...

Link RemovedHello when I start my laptop i get to the logon screen and it lets me choose My own administrator account and ''Other User'' and how do i delete or disable that ''Other User'' the picture above is how my logon is like Thanks !! --------------------------------------- Specs...

Hey guys, Recently, I have not been able to get my computer to sleep. I used to press a button on the keyboard and it would go to sleep, this worked until a couple of days ago. When I press the button now, the monitors go black and then take me to the login screen. I have already done a...

Hi everyone, first time post here so bear with me :) When I boot up my computer, it displays the animated windows7 logo as normal, but where it would normally display the login screen all I get is a blank screen with the mouse cursor. I've tried all keyboard shortcuts and random clicks to no...

Relatively simple ways to remove Windows 7's floating-color-balls start-screen animation, and supply your own background images for the operating system's log-on screen and desktop. More...

hi i have windows 7 ultimate 64. when i turn on the computer from an off state the screen shows the bios screen and then the windows starting up screen but the screen then goes blank when i get to the user login screen. if i hit enter a few times it will generally log me into a user account...

My Win7 HP x64 PC has two hard drives, each partitioned into two volumes: My C:\ and E:\ drives are each half of a 200GB drive, both NTFS. My D:\ and F:\ drives are each half of a newer, 1TB drive, both NTFS. My F:\ drive has around 400GB of 'stuff' that I want to preserve. I've been trying...

You can hide users from HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList But I am not able to login that account again. I know you can set dontdisplaylastusername to show two textboxes for login, but I would like to show SOME of the other users in a list, and I can type...

Is there a way I can change the appearance of how windows load up before you see the logon screen? I want to see another loading screen instead of the default screen with the green bar moving up to load. Is there a way?