"Amanda Angelika"  wrote in message

It a appears you get the Login dialogue box with just the desktop

wallpaper

in the background, which should be fine for security purposes :)
-- 
Amanda

Strange.  With WinXP what happens is that a password dialogue box attempts
to appear for a split second but then the screen goes completely black.  If
you don't touch the mouse/keyboard, the screensaver comes back after about a
minute.  There is no way to get through the screensaver and you have to
power cycle.

I've seen this "bug" mentioned quite a few times on the Boinc forums.
Rudylis replied in this thread that one of the most recent WinXP updates
appears to have fixed this, so it may have been a WinXP issue.  I just
installed all the most recent WinXP updates and will re-install Boinc to see
if its working correctly now.

Cheers,
-Eric