So in this thread I was talking about how my mom managed to mess up my old computer. I borrowed a monitor and played around with it this weekend and it turns out it was the HD. So, I put my 250 gig backup drive in, partitioned it to 20 gigs for XP and the rest for files then turned it into a media PC. I have it all setup in my family room but have one issue. I want to password protect it but not sure how that will work if I need to reboot it. There is no monitor and i use remote desktop to control it. Can I remote desktop into the PC if no user has logged on yet? All help is appreciated