Comments on: Configure Auto Logon

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:30:59 +0000

Thanks to comment 8 (http://www.win2008workstation.com/win2008/configure-auto-logon#comment-3539), that’s the cause of user icon not showing on my welcome screen…

By: simon

simon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:03:23 +0000

thanks admin

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By: Vikramaditya

Vikramaditya — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:53:31 +0000

Nevermind!–Figured it out thanks to arrocharGeek! You are absolutely correct and my savior haha.

Went to cmd prompt, and used the runas command to launch regedit in the administrator environment and then deleted the DWORD value from there!

In case anyone else has this problem. Launch command prompt from the start menu. Go to your system32 folder (C:\Windows\System32) and type “runas \env \user:administrator ‘regedit.exe’” , that way you have full permissions in the Registry Editor and can do what you need to!

By: Vikramaditya

Vikramaditya — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:15:09 +0000

Ahh, the issue #10 talks about just happened to me! I did the “remove administrator from login” instructions in post #2, and now I’m logged into my normal user account, and UAC prevents from doing ANYTHING–including changing the registry back to allow me to see the administrator at the login screen. And since there’s no administrator there, I can’t log into the administrator account at all to fix the problem either!

Feeling really stupid after spending 8 hours setting up windows server today, any help would be MUCH appreciated!

By: Aslan

Aslan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:04:13 +0000

works fine for Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. Thank you!

By: arrocharGeek

arrocharGeek — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:37:02 +0000

Note that if you hide all your administrators group accounts from the welcome screen, you will not be able to log in as any of those users, and elevating privelages via UAC does not work either.
Someone did mention in the forum that “runas.exe” at the cmd prompt will allow one to enter administrator credentials to elevate – but I have not tested it, as I reinstalled before I found that information.

Perhaps a warning is in order, for this step to alert users to this issue.

By: Ulle

Ulle — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:39:03 +0000

Hi,

I have now auto login on my user. the user is not administrator, so when i want to shut down the pc i could switch user og logut, how could i shut down the PC instead

Thanks for a fantastic guide/tool

Arris: Read step 5 of the Create a new User Account page to give non-Admin accounts permissions to shutdown. Thanks for the compliments!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:34:19 +0000

I have the same problem as in the previous post.

I think it is caused by this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947708/en-us

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:43:14 +0000

I only see username and password boxes on the welcome screen. How do I show the user list selection? - I have admin and non-admin users - I disabled "Do not show last logged on user name" in group policy Arris: If I add some users using the Create a new User Account page, I get a logon screen like this. Don't know what your logonscreen is different from this one?

By: help me

help me — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:07:06 +0000

When my computer is idling it goes to the Windows Logon screen and shows the current user as “locked” and my downloads are basically stopped along with other ongoing work. How to I make it stay logged into the user?

Arris: Probably that’s the screensaver that is being activated after X minutes and if you press any key the logon screen will be displayed. You can disable this behavior by right clicking your desktop -> Personalize -> Screen Saver -> Uncheck “On resume, display logon screen”. It’s still weird that downloads stop because of this…

By: hannubys

hannubys — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:58:42 +0000

logonexpert is nice

By: rsergio

rsergio — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:10:59 +0000

Guys look at Logonexpert tool for windows 2008 autologon it saves password encrypted

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:55:49 +0000

Wow.. thanks Admin!

Admin: You ‘re welcome!

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:40:31 +0000

Hello, is there a way to 'hide' Administrator from the login screen? Administrator is always in focus upon boot and I have to click on my name to login as me.. if I hide Administrator, I can just hit 'enter' and enter my password.. Thx Admin: See this topic at the forum how to hide users from the login screen!

By: RustyBadger

RustyBadger — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:27 +0000

The user I wanted to auto-logon as didn’t have a password, this reg hack worked instead:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName String %USERNAME&
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultPassword String %PASSWORD% or blank
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon DWORD 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324737