Disabaling windows password.

Not sure about disabling it, however if you clear the password box the first time a user logs in it will never ask for one again. Simularly if you change the password to blank " " then it won't ask anymore.

The reason you have two logon screens, is because the computer logon and the network logon are different. If they are the same, you will only have one logon.
Solution, go into your control panel (on each workstation) and find your Password applet. Open it up and change, either the network logon, or the windows logon to match the other.

Hope this helps.

The problem is one of synchronization (or lack of there of) between the Network Password and the local Windows password.

To solve the problem, delete any .pwl files in the Windows folders of the affected computers (the .pwl file is the local Windows password file). The next time the user logs on to the network, the user will be asked to verify his password as if this were the first time he logged on. This will synchronize the 2 passwords.

The problem creeps up when either a user is asked to change his network password at the log-on screen (if this is done, it won't change the local Windows password as well), or the user attempts to change his password from the Passwords applet in the Win98 Control panel without checking the Microsoft Networking box.

Hope this helps.

You can also try TweakUI to do automatic logins for 9x and NT.

1. Go to control panel
2. Under password , user profile , sleect all user uses the same .......
3. Under network , select client for microfot network in primary nertwork logon .

Restart your pc ,

i think the windows logon will still pop up ,just press enter and it will be gone for ever .

Hi

If you know your windows password. then do

Start-> Settings-> Control Panel->Passwords->Change Passwords -> Change Windows Password->

Type your current Windows password in the Old Password box ->Type your current network password in both the New Password and Confirm New Password boxes-> User Profile->select the "All users of this PC use the same preferences and desktop settings"
reboot.

If you do not know your windows password.
Start-> search-> file or folder - type *.pwldelete the file name which match the user in the local hard disk "C:".
use note pad to edit System.ini file. Scroll to [Password Lists] then delete the entry that match the user name under [Password Lists] that looks similar to (USER=C:\WINDOWS\USER.PWL). Do not delete the [Password Lists] header then rebbot.
After entring the network password you get the windows password enter the network password then conform it.after you rebooted both password will be the same and you will not see windows password again.Make sure that your network Logon is selected in the Primary Network Logon box.
(Start-> Settings-> Control Panel-> network->Primary Network Logon .
If the user change it agian you will have the same so to stop them you need toremove the password icon (applet) from control panel. Start->regedit->
Find the keys and create a new DWORD value or modify the existing value called "NoSecCPL" and edit the value to be 0x00000001.the size is REG_DWORD.

1- User Key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
NoSecCPL
2- System Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
NoSecCPL

How to Prevent a Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me Logon Prompt at Startup (Q152104)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q152104

Good luck

Mohamed

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Hi,
A permanent solution is to run REGEDIT and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network\
Create a new DWORD value of DisablePwdCaching
When its hexadecimal value is set to 1, it will not promptfor, or store, a local Windows password.
(I don't try this, but someone use this with success)

Editing the registry is a rather harsh way to deal with this problem and risky to say the least. Number 5 is correct in that all users should use the same profile. To go a little further, what you need to do is eliminate all windows cached passwords on the pc by searching for and deleting all .PWL files on the local machine. It will cause all of their passwords for web sites and the like to be lost and they will need to re-enter them the next time those sites are visited, but unlike the registry instructions, it will allow users to have IE remember passwords to sites.

Once you have deleted all the .PWL files, reboot the pc and have the user log on to the network as usual. Make sure that they pay attention to the log on screen--the one for the network should be entered and the one that will come up for windows should have a null password or just enter pressed for the password. This will eliminate all further prompts for windows passwords for this user. If other users log on, they will need to do the same thing when prompted for a windows password.

Hope this helps.

If the windows password and the network password are the same, you will not be prompted for the windows password. To change the windows password go into control panel, either users or passwords.

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