User trouble

[Freak]

When I first boot up in Windows, I have a logon user screen. So I only have 1 user name, and I type in my password as usual. But for some reason everytime I do that it loads the "cancel" desktop, not my "Profile."
This started yesterday on halloween.

I am using Windows Me.

It's annoying the crap out of me because msconfig startup options are different, desktop is different, and everything in my documents is unaccessible because its not the right user.


Before this happened I had not installed anything special, but the reason I rebooted is because Windows crashed while in screensaver mode so I don't know what was happening on the desktop.

Thanks.

[Tweaker]

Try this, start-search-type in *.pwl -click ok-
rename to .old - reboot- when prompted at boot-up type in a username if needed, leave password field blank -click ok.

It should now bootup without the log on prompt, unless this is a network log on prompt, if so click start-settings-control panel-open passwords-user profile tab-choose all users use same preferences and desktop-click ok
you can do this also if you don't have different users, and this will have same effect.

[Freak]

Thanks for the reply Tweaker

I did the search and came up with 3 files.

Default.pwl in Windows folder, Freak.pwl in Windows folder and Default.pwl in the Windows/Options/Cabs folder.

Do I rename all of them to *.old?

EDIT: OK i renamed the first 2 into old. Booted up again and still got User Login screen , but did not need to enter password.

But it still boots up to the DEFAULT desktop. Not my profile desktop. The DEFAULT desktop is the desktop that is specified in C:/Windows, not C:/Windows/Profiles/Freak. The Freak folder has all my My Documents stuff in it. The Default folder has nothing, because I've never used it before. Even my IE settings are default now, its so annoying.

[Freak]

well I fixed the problem now by running scanreg /restore and restored a previous registry entry from like a month ago.

Not the most recent, but at least it isn't something from 2 years ago :(.

[Tweaker]

Well you fixed it that's the important thing. ;)