Windows XP Logon/Logoff
Windows machines in our labs and classrooms will be converted from Windows 2000 to Windows XP during the summer of 2002. Here is some information about the improvements, differences, and known problems.
Getting Started
To use any of the Student Computing labs on campus, users must login (identify themselves) by entering their Access Account user ID and password when prompted. You can obtain an Access Account by using your Penn State photo ID card at an automatic signature station. Click below for locations and hours of signature stations.
Logging On
- If the monitor shows the Windows XP screensaver, press any key or move the mouse
- Press the Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys simultaneously (as the message says)
- Type your Access Account in the User Name field and your Access Account Password in the Password field.
If you are certain you have correctly typed your password but cannot logon, go to https://clc.its.psu.edu and pick "Change Your Password" to change all passwords (uses www.work.psu.edu) or "Reset Your Password" to set the win.psu.edu domain password equal to the Access Account password.
User Setup Program
The very first time you logon, the UserSetup program runs to set logon options for Windows XP workstations, connects to file servers at logon and shows current news titles. A desktop icon can be launched later to review or change settings.
Logging Off
Make sure you logoff so no one can send mail as you, charge printing to you Access account, or access or delete your files.
- Close all of the applications you have been using and remove any disks or CDs you used from their drives.
- Click on the Start Menu.
- Select Log Off (your access id should appear next to the words 'log off'.
Automatic Logoff
In order to protect users who accidentally leave a lab machine without logging off, an automatic timer will log you off an idle machine. Currently this is set to your ScreenSaver timeout plus 15 minutes. But Please REMEMBER TO LOGOFF.
Logon Accounts
All PSU Access Accounts were replicated in the win.psu.edu "domain" last year to make access to the "U-drive" easier. Although you had to enter your Access Account userid and password when you logged onto a Windows 2000 machine, you were actually logged onto the domain with generic account ("LabUser"). Settings for a few desktop features, and for a few applications were saved and restored for you using a program we developed (UserReg), but many application settings were not saved from session to session.
For U-drive access, Access Account passwords were synchronized with domain passwords with some special back-end software we developed for Macintosh and Windows 2000 logons. That process is not enabled for Windows XP. Soon, however, password changes made via www.work.psu.edu are synchronzed with the win.psu.edu domain when the change is made.
Go to https://clc.its.psu.edu and pick "Change Your Password" to change all passwords (uses www.work.psu.edu) or "Reset Your Password" to set the win.psu.edu domain password equal to the Access Account password.
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This page was last modified: 4/2/2007 8:45:44 AM.