Can anyone tell me why my computer suddenly changed the way I logon. I will explain. All was well and aparently normal on shut down one day, then when starting the system again the next day it took ages to bootup to the point where I normaly saw my user name and picture along side that of my wife and son. But instead of the XP welcome screen being displayed it was the windows classic logon screen.
I was able to logon however and went to the control panel user accounts to change it back and found the system telling me I was already using the XP logon. I now seem to be stuck with the old style logon screen as all my eforts to chang it back so far have failed. Oh and also I now get a system crash sometimes when I use the mouse right click function.

Any advice would be great Thank's

Try a system restore, it seems like something went wrong with your computer that last time you shut down. You can do this by choosing a restore point from earlier when the system logged in corrrectly, or with your oroginal operating system disk (use it to boot from and run the recovery console)

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Thank's for the reply, unfortunately I have tried the system restore with no luck and XP came preinstalled on my machine from Tiny computers, so I don't have an operating system disc and Tiny are now out of the game I think.

Ah, thats is indeed unfortunate.

What I would try is setting it to classic (as you said it's set to normal mode BUT is using classic anyways) Go ahead and set it to classic and reboot (How if u dont remember : http://support.microsoft.com/default...291559&sd=tech )

Then, when rebooted, set it back to the normal Home way of logging in. Reboot, and see if that's fixed it.

There are MANY different things that can cause the Right-Click crash, hard to pinpoint

These people ( http://www.tech-recipes.com/modules....opic&t=358#939 ) have a miriod of solutions, you might try a few of their ideas and see if that fixes it for you.

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Another way is to go into Run and write: control userpasswords2, click on the "Advanced" tab and then at the bottom there is a tick box that says: "Require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete". If you unselect the tick then you may not have to log on the classic way.

I know what you have dune' You have downloaded something to your computer and it changed some of your setting' However You will need to uninstall the software or program you downloaded for it to be able to get back to normal.

Something like that happend to my computer. Hope this helps you. If not get back to me

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I am always about if you need a quick answer to how to fix a problem

this happened to me once.i had installed some minor utility from my mothgerboards utility disk and i got what you got.
i pinned down the date of the problem and found from cintrol panel what program i had installed then and uninstalled it.

then by lkooking in the control panel and the properties of my computer i found a way [i really do not remember how; im sorry about that] to change back the screen.

now i have the xp logon screen back on.

hope it helps somehow.

Go into start control panel user accounts change the way my computer loggs on and off and click welcome screen and switch user.
And restart.