Well it took a bit of digging, but here's how to get rid of the windows
login. I take it that's what you really want to do.
First, make sure you don't have a windows logon password setup. Go into
the start menu, settings, control panel, and passwords. Select "change
windows password". If you have a password setup, enter it in the "old
password" box, and leave the "new password" and the "re-enter" fields blank
and click "ok".
Now, from "control panel", go into "network". On the Configuration page,
go to "Primary Network Login" and select "Windows Login". Click "ok", and
it will eventually prompt you to reboot. It may even install some stuff,
and I suppose you could be asked for the Windows CD somewhere in there
before the reboot.
Also, before clicking ok, you may want to turn off any file sharing you
have. You can do this with the dialogue you get with the "file sharing"
button on the network configuration screen.
The next reboot should come up with no login screen.
I hope this helps. That login prompt is a pain if you don't need it. I
used to have a registry tweak for removing the login prompt, but I couldn't
find it, and searching the registry didn't bear fruit. I'm using
Windows/98 by the way. Your milage will probably vary depending upon your
version of windows.
>From: "McCann, John" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Removing a Home Network
>To: [log in to unmask]
>X-Rcpt-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>X-DPOP: Version number supressed
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>Hi, fellow listers:
>At my household, we've recently established a network allowing two computers
>to share the cable internet connection. We have a linksys router / hub with
>one computer being connected via hard wire and my computer being connected
>by a wireless link since my computer is in the study a good fifty feet from
>any cable drop. We both used the internet connection wizzard so that we can
>share the cable connection, and now that works. While fuddling around with
>this process, I did invoke the home networking wizzard, though I apparently
>didn't have to do so at this point since I only want to share the internet
>connection available from the router / hub; i.e., I'm not sharing my
>internet connection nor is my partner sharing hers as such; we're simply
>jointly accessing that which is available from the router. At this point, I
>don't want to share anything on my computer, files, the printer, etc. Now
>whenever I boot up the computer, (and this is before the JAWS loads), I'm
>asked for my user name and password, though I haven't created either and I'm
>not going to. I can get past this by simply hitting "enter", but this is
>getting old.
>
>My question is: how can I delete my home networking account / configuration
>totally and absolutely as though it had never been done. I don't see any
>option for "delete home networking configuration" or anything like that.
>Obviously, I don't want to delete the ability to create a home network in
>the future, but I don't want one now and I don't want this user ID /
>password stuff popping up each time I boot the computer.
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>John
>
>
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