When I first boot my windows 98se it will ask for my name and password. My name is in the area, but no password. If I just hit the ok button windows will start without any problems. Is there a way to change your user name? OR Is there a way to get rid of the network sign in all together The operating system is: Windows 98se and it is for home use, I am not on a network.

go to the Network applet in Control Panel, and find where it says "Primary Network Logon" and change it from Client for Microsoft Networks to Windows Logon or Family Logon. Next click Start-Find- Files or Folders, and search your C drive for *.PWL and delete all the entries that it finds. Reboot. When you restart, it will prompt you again for your username/password. Put in your name and leave the password blank, and hit OK. It will ask you to confirm your password, make sure both fileds are empty, and click OK. This tells the computer that you don't want a password, and you don't care who gets on the computer. Knowing that, it will never ask you for a password again. HTH -Dave C

Above completely correct - but don't believe you need to do anything but change your primary network logon. If you are hitting OK your password is already blank.

If you dont need to be on a network just log in to windows, right clik on my neighborhood or my network icon on the dektop, then properties, double click on the microsoft network option and then disable the check box that says log on to ____ domain. this should get rid of the log in to microsoft network windows and let you log on to windows normally. Hope it helps. :)

Hi all, Similar to will, I would say you don't need to change the primary network logon but just delete the *.pwl's, restart and give a blank password. That's what I did on my comp and it works just fine! Gérard from Paris, France