Anytime you install a network client for Windows 95 you will get the login
name and password screen, delete the networking config and it will go away.
If you need the networking client then go to the MS website and download
the Powertoys for Windows 95, one of the powertoysis caled TweakUI and
contains an option which will enter the password for you.

Good Luck,

Ian
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paulb@MIDCOAST.COM.AU on 08/03/98 17:47:15

Please respond to paulb@midcoast.com.au

To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
cc:    (bcc: Ian Havercroft/IT/ErnstYoung/BM)
Subject:  Wildly [OT] but; How to exterminate Windoze passwords?




OK, I've declared it! The only relevance to PICs is that I *need*
these machines working to be able to program PICs and the network is
a tool to use my time sufficiently efficiently to do so!

  I used to use a DOS-based network to do this, but WIN95's support of
DOS-level drivers is (better than WIN3.1 but) too poor to allow this to
work reliably.  So I installed TCP/IP but Microsoft Networks can't
properly use this as a substrate, so I had to install NETBEUI as well.

  I now have two machines (and soon more) that won't auto-boot (which I
need to run my packet radio, my FAX etc...) because of these two
parasitic screens which pop up asking for a password (even though I've
never given one) and then glibly informing me it can't find a DNS to
look up the non-existent password.

  Does this strike a chord with you?  More so, have you successfully
fixed it?  Please tell?  I saw a recent comment *somewhere* about a WIN
process launcher which zaps nasty question pop-ups but where would you
insert it anyway?

  Some might say RTFM but ... this is Microslop!  I thus pray to excuse
such a "newbie of newbies" enquiry.  I'll try not to do it again...

  In anticipation...
        Paul B.