XP auto login

[jimmm33]

I guess I should already know this, but I can't find the setting.

I need an xp Pro machine to login as a particular user without asking for a password.

I know I have seen this setting during install.

[Ya_know]

It's in the control panel, under users. Under the Change how users log on section.

I don't use it myself, but working on a friends PC, after adding all of the MS updates, seems like the auto longon isn’t working, although it did before the updates. I can do fast user switching, and the regular login, but no auto login. As far as that goes, this is an XP Pro box, with only the Admin user created.

I was speculating that the updates changed this, but was waiting until I found proof.

[NooNoo]

System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set) 
AutoAdminLogon REG_SZ "1" 
DefaultUserName REG_SZ "jbloggs" 
DefaultPassword REG_SZ "blog123" 
DefaultDomainName REG_SZ "BLOGLAND"

Just remember if someone does manage to take control remotely, this "hack" allows full access with admin privileges.

[Rellik]

TweakUI has an option for Autologin

[adamreiswig]

System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set) 
AutoAdminLogon REG_SZ "1" 
DefaultUserName REG_SZ "jbloggs" 
DefaultPassword REG_SZ "blog123" 
DefaultDomainName REG_SZ "BLOGLAND"

Just remember if someone does manage to take control remotely, this "hack" allows full access with admin privileges.

What you mentioned above is the same thing that TweakUI for XP adds. For some reason though my XP Pro box resets the autoadminlogon value to 0 after each boot. So if I change it to 1 it works for one boot. Do you know why that might be? I thought of adding a reg key to the startup folder to correct this but I'd want to add switches so it does not prompt me every boot to confirm the registry add. I prefer it to work in the background. Any thoughts or ideas would be very, very welcome. Thanks!!

-KliK

[Gollo]

Go to Start, Run and type in "control userpasswords2" and hit enter. Then clik on the name of the user you want to login and uncheck the User must enter password check box. It will ask you for the login of said user (if there is none than leave it blank). Clik ok and your good to go. I think you need to turn off fast user switching for this to work but maybe this does it for you I'm not sure. Cheers.

[adamreiswig]

Excellent! Thank you very much. I am glad to see the old win2k user control panel. I thought m$ got rid of it in XP.

Much appreciative,

-KliK

[CrashNBurn79]

I guess I should already know this, but I can't find the setting.

I need an xp Pro machine to login as a particular user without asking for a password.

I know I have seen this setting during install.

Ok here's what happens if you have only 1 user and you get the login screen to select your user. When you download all the updates M$ puts an ASPNET(something to do w/ .NET) user on your computer. You will still only see one but if you download TWEAKUI from M$ website it will let you disable ASPNET in the util under login, that is also where you can setup a user to autologin if they have a password. It's nice to see people like to dig thru the registery and fix stuff that way, but not necessary in this case.

[Spork]

Ok here's what happens if you have only 1 user and you get the login screen to select your user. When you download all the updates M$ puts an ASPNET(something to do w/ .NET) user on your computer. You will still only see one but if you download TWEAKUI from M$ website it will let you disable ASPNET in the util under login, that is also where you can setup a user to autologin if they have a password. It's nice to see people like to dig thru the registery and fix stuff that way, but not necessary in this case.

Yeah, I found that problem with the WinXP updates adding the .NET user. I just removed the user and the computer would auto login just fine everytime.

[ppkou]

Excellent, I looked for this ans long. how can you know that scripts?