Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Q. My problem is with the log-on screens in Windows XP. I want to disable them. I recently installed the Windows .NET Framework software to do development and as a result, whenever I power up the ...

If you use a computer at work, school, library, or where ever a computer is on a network, you've probably seen the logon screen where it tells you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del. This is the logon prompt that ...

Q. You recently advised a reader to use the command “control userwords2” in order to find a menu that will allow a user to stop a Windows XP computer from continually displaying that logon screen ...

TechRepublic member dusty1one is seeking a way to bypass the Microsoft Windows XP logon/welcome screen. Here's how to do it. In versions of Microsoft Windows prior to XP, you could set up your PC to ...

Hey, need a little help here. Running XP Pro, installed Cisco's VPN client, and it changed the cutesie logon screen with the bitmaps to the normal windows logon screen. I understand why Cisco doesn't ...

This week we start with a question: Are we missing something, or is Windows XP’s implementation of TCP/IP as pathetic as we suspect it is? We ask this after setting out to test an interesting device ...

I usa my laptop and work and at home, so I am using it on tow LAN's, a workgroup and a domain. <P>So, instead of always switching settings manually, I downloaded a trial of NetSwitcher and ...