For security purpose, this is a best practice that users have to key in their username and password for them to use the pc where share among the users. But some of the users will try to make their windows auto login after a reboot, because it will make them more easy and also the faster way for them to run or launch the program in the windows rather then they need key in the username and password. For Users who are using Windows XP and Vista, below is the tips and steps on how to make them auto login by modified the registry.
- Run the registry editor
- Drill down to this registry key: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon”
- Check the four values as AutoAdminLogon, DefaultUSerName, DefaultPassword and DefaultDomainName. Change it accordingly.
AutoAdminLogon - A string value. Yes a string value. That is set to 0 or 1. If the value is 1, then the next time windows boots it will attempt to login with the credentials provided in the values shown below.
DefaultUserName - Username used to automatically login with.
DefaultPassword - Password used to automatically login with. Careful here. This is left in the registry unencrypted and easily read by anyone with an administrator account
DefaultDomainName - The domain name used when automatically logging in. Set to the name of the current computer name if the machine is not joined to a domain.
For users who are not familiar in registry, I suggest they use WindowsAutoLogin tool to configure their Windows auto login. WindowsAutoLogin is a free tool created by IntelliAdmin that will help users to configure everything in registry, users just have to keyin the username, password and domain one time and it will auto configure for it. This free tools currently support Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:46 am
there is a software tool to configure Windows autologon is LogonExpert, instead of keeping password as plain text in registry it encrypts password by AES 256bit
June 13th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Autologon is slow and useless. You shouldn’t have to pay for this. This free one rocks!
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February 7th, 2010 at 9:20 am
FYI Sys Internals which is now owned by Mircosoft still offers an auto login utility that works for XP/Vist/Windows 7 that is free to use.
One nice feature about this untility is the password is encrypted unlinke many other free or paid apps.
One other important thing to mention is that Vista and Win7 users will need to use elevated permissions to execute and work properly. (i.e. run as administrator)
Here is the direct link to download from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....63905.aspx
There are many other tools available in the suite that can also come in handy which can be found below.
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....42062.aspx
May 28th, 2010 at 3:16 am
I am part of a networking group at a university and I have been trying to set domain logins for computers and i used your way and It seemed to work but the Force login will not work because the computer wants to login under the local machine name not the Domain that we have set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DefaultDomainName set to Domain
Any suggestion of what could be missing. I also used the program that you specified without any help because after a reboot the same thing still occurs.
May 31st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Zack
try the tool that rsergio recommended in 1st post, it really works for domain logon.