Welcome screen all of a sudden now at startup

[digitalduck]

The only thing I cant think of is that I had to instlal .net framework or something when I installed sound forge 8 a week ago. Other then that, I cant think of why the change was made. Although it was probably just a critical udate that was made that I downloaded that was installed, but cant I change it back?

Thanks

 

[pcgeek11]

Net Framework adds a .NET user that is why it shifted to the user screen on boot-up. Get rid of the Net Framework user. You probably will never know he is gone. Net framework should still do what you need for games etc...

Here is some more information:

Link: http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

Another user account is created for the ASP. Net Worker Process (Aspnet_wp.exe) so that it is not running with administrator privileges. This helps to increase security because if there was a breach the worker process is running as a lowly restricted user rather than having administrator privileges on the local machine. The big complaint with there being another user created is that when it is created it will prevent auto logon had there previously only been one user on the computer.

This can easily be corrected on the first version of the .Net Framework v1.1 by downloading the following registry file which fixes the problem by adding ASPNET to the special accounts list. To do this manually rather than using my file, go to Start > Run and type in regedit. Then create a new DWORD called ASPNET under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList. There is also another manual method which can correct this issue by having the user specify which account should be used for automatic logon (see here for details).

In September 2004 Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for version 1.1 of the .Net Framework, the automatic logon issue was corrected along with further security enhancements, and full support for Windows XP Service Pack 2. To download Service Pack 1 for the framework click here (10.2Mb Download).


Can I delete it?

You can remove this account, but it is vital if you do asp.net development work on your machine.
By removing the account you may find your ASP.net projects will no longer function correctly.

It is possible to recreate the user by issuing the following command from the run dialog (changing the framework version number as appropriate)
%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe /i

pcgeek11

 

[digitalduck]

Hmm...thanks pcgeek11, but I only have two accounts, my own and guest?

 

[Bozo Galora]

same thing freaked me out first time it happened - I thought I had been hacked - LOL
needed it for 3dsmax 8 to run (also autocad)
I wonder if latest dotnetfx 3.0 (now in Vista) still does it?

 

[AstroGuardian]

This is how i solved the same problem. Remove the .Net User from control panel / user accounts. Then go to "change the way usere log on".
Uncheck the "Windows Welcome screen" or something similar. But if you have a guest account you can not skip that logon screen.
Hope this helps

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I suppose you could also download the TweakUI powertool and have it set to autologon as you.

- JaAG

 

[stash]

You don't need to remove anything. Just install SP1 for the .NET framework 1.1. It is a high priority update, and will be downloaded with automatic updates (or you can get it manually off windows update).

 

[digitalduck]

stash... thanks for the tip, that should have been something automatic update picked up on, but it didnt so I had to do it manually and sure enough it was the only one listed there. Anyway, after install I still have that prob after restart. I checked and I still have the same two user accounts just in case.

 

[stash]

Huh, that's weird. You can delete the ASPNET account and that should fix it, but you shouldn't need to. Just run the following:

net use ASPNET /delete