Datasheet

LOGGING ON AND LOGGING OFF

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If you enter the wrong password for the username you chose, Windows tells you “The user

name or password is incorrect,” as shown here. Click the OK button, and Windows then dis-

plays your password hint (if you created one).

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Passwords are case sensitive, so you must type your password using the correct case.

Windows Vista warns you if Caps Lock is on, as shown here.

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You may have to change the keyboard layout so that you can type your password correctly.

If the computer has two or more keyboard layouts available (for example, U.S. English and

United States – Dvorak), Windows Vista displays a keyboard button in the lower-left part of

the Welcome screen. Click the button to display a menu of available keyboard layouts, and

then click the keyboard layout you want.

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If your keyboard has an embedded keypad (using some letter keys to type numbers when

Num Lock is on, as the keyboards on most laptop computers do), having Num Lock switched

on may cause you to mistype your password. Windows doesn’t warn you about Num Lock

being on. So if you find Windows won’t accept your password, you’ve checked the keyboard

layout is correct, and your keyboard has an embedded keypad, look to see if Num Lock is

causing the problem.

If you’ve used Windows XP, you’ll notice a difference with the Welcome screen. Apart from

indicating that a user is logged on, the Windows XP Welcome screen also displays the number of

programs the user is running and the number of unread e-mail messages they have.

When you’ve entered the correct password, Windows displays your Desktop with its cur-

rent settings. (The section “Using the Desktop and the Start Menu” a little later in this chapter

discusses the basics of the Desktop and Start menu. Chapter 3 discusses how to customize the

Desktop.)

The first time you log on, Windows creates your folders and sets up program shortcuts for

you—so the logon process takes a minute or two. Subsequent logons are much quicker.

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