Re: Newbie question

If you have more than one user in Windows you suddenly have to pick one.

See the following link to hide the extra user from the login screen
(works for Windows XP, Vista, and 7):

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/16378967-8a39-4aef-85e4-d859a71648d3

-- Stephen

On 3/2/2012 3:00 AM, Philip Couling wrote:
> Hi Mikko
>
> This sounds like a problem with Microsoft Windows not PostgreSQL, though
> it may have been triggered by installing PostgreSQL.
>
> For security PostgreSQL adds an extra user to your PC and runs as that
> user. It sounds like Windows has seen the extra user and decided to
> give you the choice of who to logon as. This may still only show you or
> it may show the postgres user as well.
>
> To fix this I would suggest searching for something like:
> "Windows 7 Logon Automatically"
> or which ever version of windows you're using.
>
> The link I came up with was this:
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/make-windows-vista-log-on-automatically/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> On 01/03/2012 20:49, Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:
>> I have recently downloaded the postresql-program in connection with the
>> Poker Tracker -software. I have really no idea what postgresql does, and
>> I don´t care either. One side-effect however is, that when I start my
>> PC-computer, the startup routine stalls at the hardware supplyers
>> background icon and the "User"-icon (or rather the finnish equivalent),
>> which I have to click in order to proceed to the main view. I know, this
>> is a minor inconvenience, but I would appreciate if there was a way to
>> bypass this and get the computer as quickly as possible operational with
>> one start-button press, like before.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Mikko Kurki-Suonio
>> Helsinki, Finland