Disable login?

[Guest]

Probably a dumb question for you out there, but I am new at this. I have an
old Win2000 machine that used to be on a network. It is going home to be
somebody's kid's toy and I want to disable the login screen when it first
boots up, kind of like it is when you first buy a computer. How do I do
this? It no longer needs a password or anything. I have tried various
things in the network control panels, etc, but have had no luck. I was able
to set up a new user, but still can't disable the login box.

thanks.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Control Panel|Users and Passwords, then uncheck the box for "Users must
enter a user name and password to use this computer", restart for effect.

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:
| Probably a dumb question for you out there, but I am new at this. I have
an
| old Win2000 machine that used to be on a network. It is going home to be
| somebody's kid's toy and I want to disable the login screen when it first
| boots up, kind of like it is when you first buy a computer. How do I do
| this? It no longer needs a password or anything. I have tried various
| things in the network control panels, etc, but have had no luck. I was
able
| to set up a new user, but still can't disable the login box.
|
| thanks.

 

[Sundaram Narayanan[MSFT]]

1. Run Start/Run/regedit
2. Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Under this key find AutoAdminLogon and set it to 1 (If this does not
exist right click and create a new String Value with the name AutoAdminLogon
and set it to 1)
4. Set DefaultUserName to the user you want automatically logged on (Example
Administrator) (If this value does not exist create a new String Value)
5. Set DefaultDomainName to the computer name
6. Set DefaultPassword to the password

You can search for autoadminlogon on the web for more detailed instructions.

Recommend you still have a password for the account but set it in the
registry instead of having a blank password.