# another computer question for you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276 "2003-10-13T22:46:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lightweight\_traveller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ab097/32.png) [@lightweight\_traveller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightweight_traveller)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276/1 "2003-10-13T22:46:27Z")

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I run win98 and have a high speed connection. I always shut my puter down after I am finished with it but when I start up again I have to click cancel on the “enter network password” for the highspeed connection before windows will open. If I don’t click this right away sometimes windows won’t load up and I have to manually shut down and start up again. To make a long story short (too late) how do I by-pass that password step? I don’t even need to enter a password, just cancel it.

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276/2 "2003-10-13T22:50:27Z")

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    - Answer: locate and download “tweakUI”, a control panel extension (created by Microsoft but not officially distributed or supported by them) for Win98 that allows you to to a bunch of neat things, automatically-log-on to network being one of them. PM me if you cannot find it anywhere.  
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**Author:** ![lightweight\_traveller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ab097/32.png) [@lightweight\_traveller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightweight_traveller)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276/3 "2003-10-14T02:41:42Z")

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Thanks Doug, that was a help, but it didnt fix my problem of having to click the cancel on my network password box. I remember having done this a long time ago but I have since crashed and forget what I did. I am sure I went into the registry…any one else?

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-computer-question-for-you/207276/4 "2003-10-14T15:09:08Z")

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How about under Network Properties, you set the primary logon to Windows logon instead of a network? Does that work for you?