I've windows xp with one account only.
At every boot windows usually auto activates password field of my account.
But since yesterday this doesn't happen anymore.
Even if i have one account only, i have to click on my username to focus psw
field.
How restore auto focus on login field at windows login screen?
Thanks

Thanks for asking; I had one machine doing that, and one not.
Never did take time to "fix" it, before now.
Turned out I had the Guest Account "Disabled" - thru "control
userpasswords2" -
on the one that "initial focus" was active on.
[On the other machine, the Guest account was "Off" thru User Accounts, but
not "Disabled" thru control userpasswords2.]

First, turn Off the Guest Account thru Control Panel>User Accounts, then,
Type: control userpasswords2 into a "Run..." box from the Start Menu.
Click Advanced tab>then Advanced button.
Click Users folder in the left pane, then double-click Guest in the right
pane.
Check the box for Account is disabled. Reboot.

(Thanks again; that's been an annoyance.)


"Skynet" wrote:

> I've windows xp with one account only.
> At every boot windows usually auto activates password field of my account.
> But since yesterday this doesn't happen anymore.
> Even if i have one account only, i have to click on my username to focus psw
> field.
> How restore auto focus on login field at windows login screen?
> Thanks
>

I've just solved this annoyance in this way.
You can follow the steps below only if you have .net framework installed but
don't work with ASP.NET.

1. control panel/Admin tools/computer management
2. system tools/local users and groups/Users
3. double click on ASPNET (ASP.NET Machine Account)
4. click on "account is disabled

At every boot i now have password field already opened and cursor
positioned.

I always have had .net framework installed on my pc since 1.0 version and
never had problem with asp.net account. So don't know why if i disable that
account welcome screen starts working fine again, but it seems to be a
solution.
Bye


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> Thanks for asking; I had one machine doing that, and one not.
> Never did take time to "fix" it, before now.
> Turned out I had the Guest Account "Disabled" - thru "control
> userpasswords2" -
> on the one that "initial focus" was active on.
> [On the other machine, the Guest account was "Off" thru User Accounts, but
> not "Disabled" thru control userpasswords2.]
>
> First, turn Off the Guest Account thru Control Panel>User Accounts, then,
> Type: control userpasswords2 into a "Run..." box from the Start
> Menu.
> Click Advanced tab>then Advanced button.
> Click Users folder in the left pane, then double-click Guest in the right
> pane.
> Check the box for Account is disabled. Reboot.
>
> (Thanks again; that's been an annoyance.)
>
>
> "Skynet" wrote:
>
>> I've windows xp with one account only.
>> At every boot windows usually auto activates password field of my
>> account.
>> But since yesterday this doesn't happen anymore.
>> Even if i have one account only, i have to click on my username to focus
>> psw
>> field.
>> How restore auto focus on login field at windows login screen?
>> Thanks
>>

I'm running WinXP Home Edition SP3 and had the same issue. Unfortunately non of the proposed solutions helped, however I managed to resolve the issuee by doing the folowing:

1. go to Registry Editor: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S0FTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t
2. Right Click on account name in the list
3. Click "Modify" and set "Value data" to 0
4. Repeat this for every account in the list
5. Reboot

Now my user name in welcome screen is always in focus and cursor is in pasword field.