I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with Win XP on it. It’s working fine, but something odd happened a few weeks ago when a friend borrowed it for the day.
She allowed someone else to use it, he did something, and now when I click Start, Shut Down, instead of the pop-up window I used to get, which had three large buttons – Stand By, Turn Off, Restart – I get a box with the Windows logo and a drop down box with the same three options, plus “Log off commasense.”
Everything else seems fine, and this isn’t a real problem, but I don’t understand what he did that resulted in this change, or why he would have done it.
BTW, I have no evidence of, and no reason to suspect, any sort of malicious intent.
Start button, then Control Panel, User Accounts, Change the way users log on or off, tick the checkbox “Use the Welcome screen”, then click the Apply Options button.
This did it, after I uninstalled the Client for Netware, which is apparently what he had done, so that she could connect to the internal network. Thanks!
It’s not my only, or even my main, computer. If it were trashed or lost it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Not a bad idea in principle, I admit. I didn’t even think about it.
But in this particular case, they apparently had to install the Netware client to connect to a LAN. So if I had set up a guest account without Admin rights, she would have been unable to get to the Web, which was her reason for borrowing the computer in the first place.
