instead. I slipstreamed sp2 in windows, got alot of automatic things done using the runonce script, but now when I startup windows it keeps saying "loading personal settings" (with normal blue background) for about 10 secs and then shows the desktop. My welcome screen seems to be gone

And yes, show welcome screen is enabled, it just doesn't show "welcome"

Help me out plz

i think that has something 2 do with fast user switching being disabled

Maybe your computer is booting to fast and the welcome screen is shown for only a blink of an eye...?

Actually I had the opposite problem: I didn't want the welcome screen, but automatically log-on.

This is what I used to solve my problem:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

Maybe when using 0 instead of 1 you will get the welcome screen back??

why would you want it????people spent hours figuring out how to remove that

I think you used this tweak:

;Disable Welcome Screen and uses Classic Logon

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"LogonType"=dword:00000000

Thx guys now I have to try it out with virtual pc which is f*cking slow on my pc it uses only 8 mb of ram according to task manager while I gave it 256mb in the configuration

And no it's not booting too fast, it does that on a Centrino 1.5 gig laptop with 256 mb ram and even in virtual pc

@mazin I didn't use that tweak, I just used the autologon tweak and create user tweak to make sure it isn't Administrator which is logging on with the runonce script, used the guidelines at unattended.msfn.org

Use Task Manager and raise the priority level to the top. This will speed up Virtual PC.

Use Task Manager and raise the priority level to the top.  This will speed up Virtual PC.

Thx but what worries me the most is that mem usage is only 4~8 mb

vmware is better

check the page file usage.. maybe its pulling it all outta page file