W2K problem!

[binksfan]

Sorry 'bout the length of this.....I tried to be brief while giving all pertinent info....

I have a second computer that is running W2K op. sys. Because no one uses or has access to it besides my wife and I, we have always just logged on as administrator for full access to all programs. I purposely left the password blank so we would not have to remember a password to log on. The other day I started getting a pop-up screen during the boot process that said 'administrator' and had a blank space under it to 'enter your password'. Since we hadn't set a password, all you had to do was click on this screens "OK" button to continue booting up. This became an annoyance so I was looking for a way to stop this screen from popping up. I went to start/settings/control panel/users and passwords. On the screen that came up I unchecked the box that something like "require users to log in with name and password". I was hoping this would do away with that annoying boot screen. Well.........it didn't. But, it did away with everything else that used to come up when the machine booted. It now boots to a generic W2K screen that has none of my old icons that uses to come on-screen after booting. Even the icons that used to come up in the task bar and sys. tray are all different. I found an entry in the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer that coinsided with the time all of this occured. The event type is a red 'X' error, the source is NetBT and the event properties pop-up screen reads like this: "A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP address of the machine that sent the message is in the data. Use nbstat - n in a command window to see which name is in the Conflict state."

Can anyone help me get my old screens back?.........PLEASE!!!

 

[mechBgon]

1) having a blank password on your Administrator account can be a security risk, you might want to reconsider that practice, especially if the computer has Internet access. You have a router or a software firewall, I hope

2) to accomplish your original goal, right-click My Computer, choose Properties, go to the Network Identification tab, and click the Network ID button. Run the wizard and opt for the "home" option. If you use this measure, you can give your Administrator account a decent, strong password and still not have the aggravation of typing it all the time.


Go into C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop and see if your icons and stuff are there. If not, you'll have to reconstruct them.

Can I suggest the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer scan (link in my signature below), it sounds like you might benefit from running it. Hope that's some help.

 

[binksfan]

Thanx MechBgon,

Appreciate the suggestions. Will give them a shot. Info....I am running hard firewall in router, Zone Alarm, NAV, AdAware, SpyBot. I keep all dat files up to date and do frequent scans. Never had a problem, yet.