Automatic Logon

[Thor]

I have RC2 and have had automatic logon the entire time. (I am the only user
on this machine).

Now, when Vista boots, I get a button with my username on it, and I have to
click it to enter my desktop. I have obviously done something stupid (I'm
very good at that) but I don't know what it is.

The only thing unusual that I did was to attempt to get Vista to recognize
my network printer. (Which didn't work).

Can anyone help me get back my automatic logon?

Thank you

 

[Jeff]

Thor,
Did you happen to install anything that uses .net?
If so, or even if not go here:
Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\User Accounts\Manage another
Account
in there you may see another account, other than yours and guest.
..net sometimes sets up another account .asp and that'll cause what you are
experiencing.

Jeff

 

[Jeff]

oh and for a network printer do this:
Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Printers add a printer
add a local printer>use existing port>next>pick your printer driver> install
it
then once you see the printer, right click>properties>ports>add port>local
port
name it \\network computer name\name
close>close
BINGO

Jeff

 

[Robert Pendell]

oh and for a network printer do this:
Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Printers add a printer
add a local printer>use existing port>next>pick your printer driver>
install it
then once you see the printer, right click>properties>ports>add
port>local port
name it \\network computer name\name
close>close
BINGO

Jeff

Or tell it that the printer you want isn't listed then add a printer
using the tcp/ip address or hostname. It will go and probe that address
directly. That is what I had to do for my HP because it didn't detect
it when it searched the network initially. Selecting a shared printer
by name didn't work.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

I have seen this before in XP. Can you tell me *why* .net would set up
its own user account, and whether or not there is any harm in deleting
the account? I can't understand the sense of this at all, and I have
deleted such an account before (to return to auto login) without
noticing anything amiss thereafter.

 

[Jeff]

nope,
no ideas about .asp
I always deleted it myself.
no problems
Think it's a dev thing.

Jeff

 

[Thor]

Thanks everyone for the info about auto login, but that didn't solve my
problem.

My network printer now shows up in the Printer list, but it is offline.
Sending a print job to the printer winds up in a queue and stays there!

But, again, thanks to everyone for their input.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Thanks for the confirmation that deleting the account seems to pose no
problem.

 

[James]

..NET creates its own account so it can run applications under a different
security context, for one. Yes, there can be significant problems,
especially if you're a developer of ASP.NET applications, or host any
locally. For your average user, it's not going to manifest itself visibly.
If you need to recreate the user account for any reason, you can run:

%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<version here>\aspnet_regiis.exe /i

In XP there's a way around this with a bit of registry tweaking (if you know
what you're doing). Haven't ever wanted an auto-logon personally, and
certainly wouldn't in Vista, so can't help you there.

 

[Jeff]

James,

Thanks for the insight,
just as I thought, a dev thing,
and since I'm not, and don't plan to,
fine with me that it's gone.

Jeff

 

[Paul Gray]

You have not done something stupid, this is just the default behaviour of
Vista!

Try running "control userpasswords2" from the "run" option on the start menu
(or by pressing "Windows-R").

Once you have accepted the UAC prompt to continue you will see a dialogue
box and a checkbox (which will be ticked) saying "Users must enter a
username and password" (or something like that). Just untick the checkbox,
and select ok, you should then be asked the username and password of the
user that you want to auto login, and you should find that next time you
reboot you will be automatically logged in,, (if my memory serves me
correctly!)

Thanks

Paul