every time i bootup it has a small icon of a guitar with my name next to it that i have to click before it actually goes through setting up the desktop and startup programs. how to get past that part icon click?
Here’s my feeble attempt:
Grab TweakUI from Microsoft’s site (here), install it, run it (it should be under Start->All Programs->Powertoys for Windows XP->Tweak UI). Now, there should be an option group called “Logon”. Click the + and expand that, then click “Autologon”, checkmark the “Log in automatically at system startup” option, make sure the user name is correct, “Set password” if you’ve got a password on the account, click Apply & OK and be done with it.
All that said, I’m sure someone has a much simpler way of doing this.
This would happen to me after doing one of the .NET auto upgrades from Microsoft. It actually created a .Net user of some sort even though it wouldn’t show up on that list. Not sure why it did that. So I ended up deleting that user. With my primary the only user left, I stopped getting the icon at start up. Not sure if this is related to your setup at all.
Wait, you have to log in to your machine?
after i turned on my laptop it just has a blue screen with “windows” on it and a guitar icon and my name. i click the icon (no password or typing) and it goes straight to the desktop and does the normal starting stuff (connecting to internet, startup programs filling the systray, etc). after i got rid of the asp.net thing it went straight to desktop, no blue screen of guitar icon.