XP Login

Can anyone tell me how to get the login screen on xp back to the auto login and get rid of the login and password screen?

Thanks
ScabS

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Originally Posted by scabs

Can anyone tell me how to get the login screen on xp back to the auto login and get rid of the login and password screen?

Thanks
ScabS

This what you mean? Straight from the help in XP.
To turn the Welcome screen on or off

You must have a computer administrator account on a computer that is a member of a workgroup or is a stand-alone computer to turn on or turn off the Use the Welcome screen feature. Logging on at the Welcome screen is not available on computers that are members of a network domain.

Open [img]ms-its:c:windowshelpntshared.chm::/shortcutCold.gif[/img]User Accounts in Control Panel.
Click Change the way users log on or off.
Do one of the following:
To specify that users log on to the computer using the Welcome screen, select the Use the Welcome screen check box. A user logs on to the computer by clicking his or her user account name on the Welcome screen. If a password is assigned to the account, the user is prompted to type it.
To specify that users log on to the computer without using the Welcome screen, clear the Use the Welcome screen check box. The Welcome screen will no longer appear when you start the computer. To log on to the computer, type your user name (and password, if you have one) in the standard Log On to Windows dialog box.

Method 1: TweakUI
Method 2:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
If these values don't exist add them as string:
AutoAdminLogon = "1"
DefaultPassword = "whatever password you have"

The downside is that the account password is in clear text in the registry, but I assume that if you use auto logon you don't care about security.

thanks

thanks for the help :-) got it back the way i want it.

scabs