XP installation doesn't ask me to create a profile.

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When a XP installation is almost finished if goes through the process of you naming the profile(s) to be on the computer.

With this PC I'm working on it doesn't give me that choice. It just boots into the Administrator profile.

Normally the Adminstrator profile doesn't show on the logon screen, but with this installation it does.

I have formatted the partition again and installed XP again but with similar effect.
 
Picard said:
When a XP installation is almost finished if goes through the process of you naming the profile(s) to be on the computer.

With this PC I'm working on it doesn't give me that choice. It just boots into the Administrator profile.

Normally the Adminstrator profile doesn't show on the logon screen, but with this installation it does.

I have formatted the partition again and installed XP again but with similar effect.
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XP Pirated edition? Did you have to type in a key for the installation?
 
killadoob said:
Does it look like windows 98/2000?
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No, but I have it sorted ... sort of.

Normally XP let's you choose a name for your account just before it boots into Windows for the first time. This installation didn't. It just took the default Administrator account and booted into that. My fear was that if I created a "second" account, the Adminstrator account would appear with it on the logon screen. I don't want that.

But luckily it didn't happen. After I created the "second" account the Administrator disappeared from the logon screen. Or at least it boots in directly in the my personalized account without me having to choose between mine and the Admin account at the logon screen.
 
original XP cd or maybe it was a slipstream version where settings are applied before burning the CD
 
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