Solved: "The system could not log you on....."

This is my daughter's ex-PC which has a few minor problems I'm trying to resolve so I can use it. Until now I've been logging on to it under her old profile (she used autologon, missing the logon page). I decided to rename the profile and use a password for security.

I now get a dialogue at boot which begins, "Logon Message : The system could not log you on....." It doesn't do anything. The profile logon page is behind and pressing any key makes the message go away.

I've got a little familiar with the Registry Editor of late and I can see that in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/WinLogon the DefaultUserName and AltDefaultUserName still refers to my daughter's profile. That's probably useless information but I'm lost to provide more information.

Any help appreciated.

 

To work around the problem that concerns the hidden Administrator Logon dialog box, press ALT+TAB to bring the dialog box to the front of the screen so that you can log on to the computer with valid credentials.

Check out this site it should help you out: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm?tag=posts;msg572332

 

Hi. I worked out the problem. She bypassed the normal logon with TweakUI. I just disabled the autologon and all is now fine. Thanks for trying to help .