☺How to Enable / Disable New Welcome Screen, Log Off and Shut Down Dialog Box in Windows XP?♥

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If you are a Windows XP user, you can see the new XP welcome screen at Windows startup. Also when you click on “Log Off” or “Shutdown” options in Start Menu, it shows new XP Style dialog boxes as shown in following screenshots:
New XP Style Log Off Dialog Box:

New XP Style Shutdown Dialog Box:

There are also Classic dialog boxes available in Windows XP. If you don’t want the new XP Style dialog boxes, you can enable the old Classic dialog boxes as shown in following screenshots:
Classic Log Off Dialog Box:

Classic Shutdown Dialog Box:

Following tutorial will help you in enabling/disabling the new XP Style dialog boxes and Welcome Screen:
1. Open User Accounts applet in Control Panel.
2. Click on “Change the way users log on or off” link as shown in following screenshot:

3. It’ll show a new page containing 2 options:

• Use the Welcome screen
• Use Fast User Switching

Now if you want to disable new Welcome screen and XP style dialog boxes, then disable both options. Or if you want to enable welcome screen and new XP style dialog boxes, then enable both options.
NOTE 1: If you get following error while enabling “Use the Welcome screen” option:
Uninstall client services for netware.
Open “Network Connections” and open Properties of your Internet Connection. Now go to “Networking” tab and select “Client services on Netware” option and click on the”Uninstall” button.
NOTE 2: You might also get following error message while enabling “Use Fast User Switching” option:
Fast User Switching cannot be used because Offline Files is currently enabled. To make changes to Offline Files, click OK.
If you get this error message, click on OK button and it’ll show a new dialog box. Now disable “Enable offline files” option in this dialog box and click on OK button. Now you’ll be able to enable “Use Fast User Switching” option.
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Lets see what is netware ?
NetWare is a network operating system (NOS) that provides transparent remote file access and numerous other distributed network services, including printer sharing and support for various applications such as e-mail transfer and database access.
Fix:
To enable welcome screen login, you need to disable the netware client services.
Follow the steps below to disable Netware client services:
How to disable netware client services?
1. Go to Control Panel > Network Connection . This will open up the network connections available on your computer.

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2. Right click on the connection and select Properties.
As shown in the picture below.

3. In general tab, the option for Client Services for NetWare and press Uninstall.
4. Repeat step 2 and 3 for all the connections shown in network connections.
5. Restart your computer.
6. To enable welcome screen now, go to Control Panel > User Accounts > Change the way users login and select the option Use Welcome Screen. We hope following the above procedure you will be able to fix the trouble.

 7. Open User Accounts applet in Control Panel.2. Click on “Change the way users log on or off” link as shown in following screenshot:8. It’ll show a new page containing 2 options:

• Use the Welcome screen
• Use Fast User Switching

9.Mark-Use The Welcome Screen
10.Mark-Use Fast User Switching
11.Click Apply
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After installing XP and it does not give me the option to select from either one of these two options. When you try, You may receive the error: “Client Services for NetWare has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast User Switching”.
To restore these features you must uninstall Client Services for NetWare.
Try one of the following solution
Solution 1
Open control panal and Open Network Connections
Right click on LAN and select Properties
Then where it says connection uses the following click on’Client Services for Netware’
Then press uninstall
If you don’t see Client Services for Netware option try this
Follow the above procedure to get to the network properties (of the network you are using currently). If you can’t see any netware entries do the following:
1. Highlight your network, and click install button.
2. Make sure “Client” is highlighted, and click add.
3. Highlight “Client Service for Netware”, click OK
4. Allow your PC to restart.
Now follow the first method instructions again, and ‘hopefully’ CSNW should be there for you to uninstall.
Solution 2
Go to Start>Run> type Regedit click OK.
Now navigate to the following key from left pane
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and delete GinaDLL key from right pane
Then Reboot Your PC.
You should now be able to go into the user account control from the Control Panel, and change the way users log on/off.
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