bludtaino Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I just did my first unattended install of XP and now, each time I restart my computer, it restarts in the Admin logon instead of just the Welcome screen (which would be great) or my primary user account (which would be great as well).I tried to do a search, and I ended up getting things relating to how many times it should autologon.Any suggestions?Thanks in advance.Namaste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kegobeer Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Exactly what is your question? Do you want to stop the autologon process? If so, you can disable the autologon thru your group policy addin (I believe that's the one.) I don't recall the exact key to change, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRosenfeld Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 XP pro or XP home?The reason for asking is that home does not have the group policy editor, and the procedure is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludtaino Posted October 14, 2005 Author Share Posted October 14, 2005 XP Pro.I would like to not log into Admin by default. I would prefer to go to the welcome screen and choose, but if not, I can go straight into my primary user account. I have no idea how to utilize the Group Policy Service.Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kegobeer Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 (edited) My mistake, it isn't the group policy, it's a registry key.[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]"AutoAdminLogon"="0"Setting autoadminlogon to 0 will stop the auto login process. Edited October 15, 2005 by kegobeer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludtaino Posted October 16, 2005 Author Share Posted October 16, 2005 That worked fabulously. Thanks again.It did, however, lead to an additional question . . . When chaning that setting, I noticed a registry entry marked "DefaultUserName" & "DefaultPassword". The first one has a value of "Administrator" and the second has a value of my Administrator password. Would it be safe to either delete these keys or change their values to zero?Thank you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz23 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Here's another sugestion. Type "control userpasswords2" in the run box. This will allow you to select a user and make that user log-in automatically. This should also modify the "DefaultUserName" & "DefaultPassword" registry keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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