I am having some trouble getting autologon to work properly. i am using BDD/OSD to create, sysprep, and capture an image. We have a GPO that renames our administrator account so specifiying autologon in Sysprep.inf doesn't want to work becuase it will always use "administrator" as the user name. What I have done previously was have a .reg file with the autoreg entries and then call it from cmdlines.txt during the install. That doesn't seem to be working anymore. here's my files

cmdlines.txt

[Commands]
"\sysprep\sysprep.exe -clean -quiet"
"regedit.exe /s AutoLogon.reg"

autologon.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="LocalAdmin"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultPassword"="pa$$word"
"autologoncount"="1"

sysprep.inf

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword="pa$$word"
	OEMSkipWelcome=1
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=008
	AutoLogon="Yes"
	AutoLogonCount=1

i have also tried to take the autologon entries out of sysprep.inf to no avail. This has worked for me before, but now it just has the logon screen waiting for a login.

This maybe a long shot.

Check if the reg has been actually applied after sysprep.

I was able to remote reg in it after it failed to login. It seems to be applying DefaultPassword and AutoLogonCount, but i dont see autoadminlogon and the DefaultUserName is still Administrator. It seems like it is applying some of it, there's no where else it could be getting the password

If i log in and apply the autolog.reg and reboot it will work.

Edited July 27, 200620 yr by crashball