deactivate user account

Is it possible in XP home to deactivate an account for a period of time, in
order to later reactivate it.

I want to do this in order only to have one active account thereby bypassing
the account selection at boot time.

thanks for any ideas,

Knud

JW
Thu May 01 07:59:10 PDT 2008

Download XP Power Toys from MS and run TweakUI and you can set up a default
for the account selection at boot time.

"Knud" <Knud@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F076F41-3853-40B9-BC32-F8850F346BC4@microsoft.com...
> Is it possible in XP home to deactivate an account for a period of time,
> in
> order to later reactivate it.
>
> I want to do this in order only to have one active account thereby
> bypassing
> the account selection at boot time.
>
> thanks for any ideas,
>
> Knud

Knud
Thu May 01 08:20:04 PDT 2008

Thanks, - just what I needed......Knud

"JW" wrote:

> Download XP Power Toys from MS and run TweakUI and you can set up a default
> for the account selection at boot time.
>
> "Knud" <Knud@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F076F41-3853-40B9-BC32-F8850F346BC4@microsoft.com...
> > Is it possible in XP home to deactivate an account for a period of time,
> > in
> > order to later reactivate it.
> >
> > I want to do this in order only to have one active account thereby
> > bypassing
> > the account selection at boot time.
> >
> > thanks for any ideas,
> >
> > Knud
>

Gary
Thu May 01 08:51:28 PDT 2008

If you don't want to download an app to do this... here's another way to do
it..

Goto Start, Run and type "control userpasswords2"
Then under the users tab, uncheck Users must enter a username/pass to use
this computer"
Then press ok and Enter your username/password

--
Gary Tsang
http://www.gtsang.com

Microsoft MVP - Windows Media Center
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"JW" <JW@nospam.nspam> wrote in message
news:6ED586A5-2CDA-4163-BEB0-4A7C9EFC5034@microsoft.com...
> Download XP Power Toys from MS and run TweakUI and you can set up a
> default for the account selection at boot time.
>
> "Knud" <Knud@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F076F41-3853-40B9-BC32-F8850F346BC4@microsoft.com...
>> Is it possible in XP home to deactivate an account for a period of time,
>> in
>> order to later reactivate it.
>>
>> I want to do this in order only to have one active account thereby
>> bypassing
>> the account selection at boot time.
>>
>> thanks for any ideas,
>>
>> Knud
>