Hello Again,
 I am doing a fresh install of my Windows XP Home Edition and I have a few problems.
 First I have fogotten how to change drive letters. My DVDrive comes up as "D:" and my second hard drive as "E:".

Second. How the heck do I get that darned 'SECURITY badge' off my notification area?
 I DO NOT WANT Windows monitoring my security, thanks anyway!
Third. During the downloading and installing of all the updates my computewr suddenly wants me to sign on with every reboot or turn on. How do I get rid of this?
If I install my old drive it just turns on. No muss- no fiss.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Eric T.
I'm afraid we'll NEED more details on what you've done up to this point...sounds like you have Windows installed twice...

PS...all security features can be turned off/on so we'll worry about that later...My computer has drawers for 2 disk drives.
 I USE this to allow me to clone my main drive (ACTIVE) to a backup drive (1 BACK, 2 BACK etc.).
I then take the backup drive out and place it on the shelf where a virus can not get to it.
 Recently my Acronis True Image program's performance went WAY south, goimg from 15 - 20 minutes to over an hour to clone.
    Soooo, I am trying a fresh install on one of my 3 backup drives.

So. How does one rearrange the drive letters? I've don it before, I'm just having a SENIOR moment here...
The sign-on thing and the security thing still bug me too
Eric   reply 1
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Not any clearer whats going on as it was before...
Do these "drawers" hold hard drives or CD drives ? ?

How MANY hard drives are in the machine currently and how are they jumpered and hooked up ? ?There are two (2) drawers in my computer case.
 Each "drawer" will accept a "REAY" which holds 1 hard disk drive. In this computer I am using PATA or IDE drives jumpered for "CABLE SELECT" which I use because I am lrgally blind and only have one working hand since my stroke over 3 years ago.
  I can slide a druve unto the second spot, boot up and clone to it from the boot drive in the first slotm turn off the computer remove the old boot drive from the first slot, move the newly clone written drive from the second slot to the first slot and boot right upo.
No moving jumpers (which I can't rvrn see) needed!

   OK now. I have now remembered how to change drive letters, that's done. I figured out how to turn the Security Shield off, that'd done.

Can anybody tell me how to make the computer STOP MAKING ME CLICK ON MY NAME???
 I never created a password so it doesn't ask for that, I just want it to turn on without me needing to do anything but press the power button.


Eric     reply 2
This startup problem may have to do with how you partition your hard drive or a dual boot setup. Have you check your Startup and Recovery under My Computer Properties, Advance tab, startup and recovery,default operating system and or time of display OS and recovery partition?
  Umm. Not a dual boot setup.
 I only have one OS on any one hard drive.

 I just looked at that place on THIS (the 'old' drive) and noticed a check in a box allowing
 30 seconds to display OS choices. I unchecked it. I hope to get a faster boot? Maybe??

I'll look into this on the 'NEW' drive.
For booting up straight to desktop in windows XP, go to Control panel - user accounts - change the way users log on and off - take the check mark out of use welcome screen - click apply options, then restart the pc.
Well that made it DIFFERENT but itstil requires a mouse click to get to the desktop.
 I am going to try to ask Microsoft, and wait 1 day for a response.
 Then I am going to format the drive and  start over.
How many user account do you have on this machine?

I would also check if BIOS setting for Fast/Quick boot is enabled.Well I got the answer from Microsoft.
 I downloaded TWEAK UI and installed it.
 Then I ran it,expanded the "LOGON" entry on the left. Then click "AUTOLOGON".
Then check "LOGON AUTOMATICALLY AT STARTUP".
Then click "OK" and restart the computer.

I am keeping a copy of these instructions for future reference.