

Step 7 – If issues still occur, and you cannot access your account, you are encouraged to contact us for help. Try to follow the recover your password guides here. Step 6 – In case you are not using VPN and you have a good connection, you may have forgotten your password. There are some incidents that some sites will block specific country or place IP addresses. Step 5 – Make sure that any Virtual Private Network (VPN) that you may be using is off. Our guide of how to do that on the most popular browsers may be useful for you. Step 4 – If you still find accessing the site impossible, you can clear your cache and cookies. xp instructions: go to control panel - user accounts in the 'Pick a task' section click on Change the way users log on or off make sure Use the Welcome screen is ticked this should bring back the login screen you want.

Provided that your password can not be seen around. Step 2 – Make sure that you your details are typed correctly. If not, some unexpected errors such as timeouts may occur. Step 1 – An active and reliable internet connection is the most important that you need.

We will go through the troubleshooting guide, here. My friend sheepishly admitted that she’d been playing around with those settings a while ago when she had password problems with her ISP.While people hardly need to follow our troubleshooting instruction, you need some some instances. So that fixed the problem, but I was still wondering how those settings got set like that. I restored the settings back to how they should be – password never expires and user can change the password. Once inside I checked the account my friend was trying to login as, and sure enough the “User cannot change password” box was checked, and the “Password never expires” box was unchecked. I tried booting Win XP into safe mode, and luckily at the login prompt I could now choose to login as Administrator (with no password!). When powering on the machine the login screen displays, but the password prompt never. I just started getting this issue this morning. Discussion in Windows XP started by InSeattle, 2. But I couldn’t even find anyone with the same problem, let alone a solution. Windows XP - No password prompt on Login screen. So she enters a new password but then gets “You do not have permission to change your password”, which prevents her from logging in and takes her back to the login screen.Īfter trying a few different things to no avail, I tried googling the problem on my iPhone. She clicks her name, enters her password, and then gets a message “your password has expired, you must enter a new one” or however the exact text goes. Yesterday a friend had a problem I’d never seen before.Īfter bootup, she would be presented with the standard Windows XP login screen, with only one user account available for login. Since I work in IT, I’m occasionally asked to do tech support for family and ex-girlfriends, even though that’s not my area of expertise.
