my comp starts up and askes me if i want the xp partion or the longhorn i chose longhorn it starts up and tells me to press ctrl alt del (to then type in a password and enter the os) but i can't get the ctrl alt del part to work . and i try num lock and all of them turn on right i try restarting the computer and that didn't work, what do i do?

thanks

Hi Maver,

Boot into safe mode.Click Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy.

Expand Local Policies and select Security Options .On the right hand side you have the security policy settings.Look for the entry named

Interactive Logon:Do not require Ctrl+Alt+Del

Double click on it,select Enabled and press apply.
Now reboot to Longhorn in normal mode.This time you will not be required to press ctrl+alt+del.

Hope this helps you.If you want to log in to your account automatically I can help you with it too.Just let me know.

automatic that be cool.

yes that would be good cuzz when i try to enable it i still get the windows pic but now the text below it is cut all except the very top so i can't read it ctrl alt del still doesn't work i go back and disable it (before it wasn't defiend) and it says to press ctrl alt del but when i do it still doesn't work. last know good configuration doesn't work enther

No problem.Boot to safe mode.Open the registry editor and go to the following key

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

On the right pane you have to look for 3 registry keys

DefaultUserName
DefaultPassword
AutoAdminLogon

If you do not find any of these create one.Right click on the empty space below the last key,select New>String Value and rename it as the wanted key.

Now enter the values for DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword(double click on key to edit) and enter 1 as the value for AutoAdminLogon.Reboot now.

Hopefully this should solve the problem.

thats for windows NT isn't it are you sure it will still work for lh?

It will.Trust me.In fact I have done this registry modification myself on Longhorn 4051.It works.

well it didn't. well kinda did
after putting in all the stuff it didn't auto log on but it atleast let me use ctrl alt del agian. i found the real answer to fix it. i was making anthor low level user acount cuzz none of my other comps can get online (long story located in the MS fourm) so my faimly can get on. but when i tried it wouldn't let me senice i didn't have any admin name yet but i was using one right then!

anyway i made an admin one then made a user one and when i went to sign back i didn't see my old admin name just the new one and the user when i went into my new admin name log on was really fast faster then xp log on. so was the user log off was fast too. i think this is something everyone needs to do to there LH build its probly one of the fixes people need to do. i know i atleast needed to do it. well thats all for now.