Log on to Windows

[KEN]

Hope someone can tell me how to get rid of the Log on to Windows window that
shows up every time I start or restart my PC running WinXP Sp3. Thankfully
there's no password involved but I do have to click OK. I'm the only one
using this machine.

 

[JS]

Download and install Tweak UI from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

After you start Tweak UI:
Expand the Logon option, select Autologon and Check the Autologon box.

OR

Start/Run and enter: CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
On the User tab:
pick (highlight) the account you want to automatically logon

Then uncheck: Users must enter username and password
Next click Apply and enter the password
(if the account you pick has a password)
Finally click OK until your completely out

Additional Info:
How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

JS
http://www.pagestart.com

 

[VanguardLH]

KEN wrote ...

Download and install Tweak UI from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

After you start Tweak UI:
Expand the Logon option, select Autologon and Check the Autologon box.

OR

Start/Run and enter: CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
On the User tab:
pick (highlight) the account you want to automatically logon

Then uncheck: Users must enter username and password
Next click Apply and enter the password
(if the account you pick has a password)
Finally click OK until your completely out

Additional Info:
How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

Except, as I recall, you cannot use a blank password for auto-logon.
Ken will have to change to a non-blank password for any auto-login
utility to work.

 

[JS]

Blank password means Windows Scheduler will not work as expected.

JS
http://www.pagestart.com

 

[KEN]

Thanks to all. I got rid of the annoying thing. Thanks again. Ken

 

[VanguardLH]

VanguardLHwrote ...

Blank password means Windows Scheduler will not work as expected.

Yet I thought the clear text password stored in the registry for the
auto-login procedure must also not be blank (i.e., it must have some
value, and not blank).

"Blank" here means a null valued string, not a series of space
characters, or blanks.

Ken could try it with a blank password but if that doesn't work for
auto-login then he'll have to specify a non-blank password for his
account. That means sometime later after using auto-login for a long
time that he will decide not to use it or must have the password for
some other purpose, like using Recovery Console mode, and then he'll be
back asking how to discover or reset a forgotten password that he hasn't
needed to enter for ages.

 

[VanguardLH]

Thanks to all. I got rid of the annoying thing. Thanks again. Ken

Did auto-login work with a blank password?