Default User Login Account Win XP

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dleepenn

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This is driving me just a little crazy. When I start my WINXP vm, it always starts up by logging in the Administrator account. I've set the password on this account AND have defined the startup so that it should give me a login welcome window. BUT... it still just logs me in as Administrator and I have to logout to get to my normal account (which is defined as Admin powers also).

Lee
 
I've tried the first tip but it still auto logs in the Administrator. When doing User Account maintenance, there is supposed to be an ADVANCED TAB, but I cannot get to it when running parallels.

I just tried to install and run Quicken 2008 under parallels and it gives me a Disk Not Ready message. Its beginning to look like I will only use parallels for a tiny bit of work.

Lee
 
I suppose user account is not administrator, thus you cannot see this tab.
About quicken:
Do you have shared profile? when are you receiving Disk not ready error (I am not familiar with Windows version)
 
I'm definitely not running shared profiles. The user account is set as admin rights. Even using the Administrator login, I cannot get to the advanced tab.

I'm about ready to just blow everything away and restart from scratch. Am also thinking about going with a boot camp partition instead of a virtual partition.

Regarding doing a boot camp partition. Do I have to blow away my drives to do this or can I take free space and allocate it to the boot camp partition.

Lastly, can the boot camp partition be on a secondary drive or does it have to be on the primary drive?

Thanks for all the help.

Lee
 
dleepenn said:
I'm definitely not running shared profiles. The user account is set as admin rights. Even using the Administrator login, I cannot get to the advanced tab.

I'm about ready to just blow everything away and restart from scratch. Am also thinking about going with a boot camp partition instead of a virtual partition.

Regarding doing a boot camp partition. Do I have to blow away my drives to do this or can I take free space and allocate it to the boot camp partition.

Lastly, can the boot camp partition be on a secondary drive or does it have to be on the primary drive?

Thanks for all the help.

Lee
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If you have enough space free on Mac - no need to delete Virtual hard drives,
in PD4 feature will be added to use physical volumes
 
I ended up installing VMWares Fusion product. I may keep this parallels license for running on my Macbook laptop where I only want access to IE 7 for web mail via outlook.

Quicken 2008 installed and worked perfectly under VMWare. I could not get it to work under Parallels.

And my weird login problem where it always logged in the Administrator account by default also was cured. As soon as I added myself as a user with admin rights, WinXP opens up with that as my login option and gives me a password prompt. Things are working better.

Lee
 
I am having the same problem, but I want to keep using Parallels and not switch to VMWare.

I have a winxp vm. When I start it up it automatically tries to log into the Administrator account. I have switched so that it does not use the welcome screen. I have also a separate personal administrator account. I have disabled the old Administrator account to try to force it to use another account. Parallels tries to fill in the user and password with the old Administrator account. First, I never indicated to Parallels that it should do this and second I can't figure out how to tell it to stop doing this.

Thanks
 
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