Windows XP Login Screen Won’t Let You Type Your Password - July 29, 2008
I was installing a new KVM switch with some Windows XP boxes and this annoying problem with the Windows XP login screen kept occurring. Sometimes you can’t get the password field on the login screen to take the keyboard focus–the cursor just ceases to exist. I noticed I could get around this by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice. This brings up the alternate login dialog box and the keyboard focus problem goes away. After logging in, there are no more keyboard problems. Guess it’s just Windows being Windows. 
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