> No, thank god. It is the security on the system. I run NT on my laptop > too and I am very glad for that log in requirement, it meqans when I am > teaching a class and my screen saver comes up that no students can go > poking around in my system while I am on a break. It alos means if I leave > my station on a contract job that no one can poke around. It emans that no > one can boot my computer without knowing the userid and password. > > Through a utility in the Resource Kit, you can circumvent that login dialog box. However, you have to know what you're doing and install it on purpose. We had a local user group member show us last summer an app in VFP3 that he and two others had worked on where he wanted to remove that login screen so "innocent" users never had the change to login as anything other than what he wanted. The application was on NT3.51 and a reasonably powered Pentium. Its job was to poll hospital trauma units on 24/7 basis. It seems when he didn't suppress that login screen, the users saw the machine, rebooted it which closed down the polling program (!), and began playing games. He had to be sure that a way was setup where he could detect and report that logout. BTW, he also then was able to diagnose problems remotely on those hospital machines.When he detected that the polling program, which also checked loads on the other hospitals, he was able to call that hospital and tell them when that event occurred. But, yes, it is good that the login screen is there and that everybody is forced to do something about it. It is a preferred barrier.