Partition filling up

[magineer02]

On 9/4/2012 11:08 AM, BillW50 wrote:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"ForceAutoLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="..."
"DefaultPassword"="..."

Replace ellipsis with user name and password. All but
"ForceAutoLogon"
maybe in some registries. That "ForceAutoLogon" is the key to have it
always automatically logon no matter what. To temporary bypass this
forced autologon is to hold down the Shift key. Now you get the
Welcome
(logon) screen once again. Neat, eh?

Hi Glen. I just ran this reg file with my Windows 7 machine and it

works great here too. ;-)

Apparently it's a well-documented tweak.... I just never ran across it,

probably because I never had a need for it and didn't look for it.

Good find, Bill.



The ForceAutoLogon setting doesn't do what most people think

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/06/544496.aspx



How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231



Force Windows to Login Automatically After Logging Out with

ForceAutoLogon

http://www.mydigitallife.info/force...ically-after-logging-out-with-forceautologon/



--

Glen Ventura

MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009

CompTIA A+

I'm not sure if this is what both you are talking about but whenever I need to go to the Administrator Account from my User Account I log off and it bypasses the welcome screen and is much faster. Should I be doing this or does it matter?

Thanks,
Robert

 

[glee]

Hi Glen,

I was able to successfully delete all the programs and the inactive
account. Is there anything else you think I should do at this point?

Thanks,
Robert

If you're not having any problems, and have an up-to-date resident
anti-virus installed, just do what you enjoy.

 

[glee]

On 9/4/2012 11:08 AM, BillW50 wrote:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows

NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

"ForceAutoLogon"="1"

"DefaultUserName"="..."

"DefaultPassword"="..."

Replace ellipsis with user name and password. All but

"ForceAutoLogon"

maybe in some registries. That "ForceAutoLogon" is the key to have
it

always automatically logon no matter what. To temporary bypass
this

forced autologon is to hold down the Shift key. Now you get the

(logon) screen once again. Neat, eh?

Hi Glen. I just ran this reg file with my Windows 7 machine and it

works great here too. ;-)

Apparently it's a well-documented tweak.... I just never ran across
it,

probably because I never had a need for it and didn't look for it.

Good find, Bill.



The ForceAutoLogon setting doesn't do what most people think

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/06/544496.aspx



How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231



Force Windows to Login Automatically After Logging Out with

ForceAutoLogon

http://www.mydigitallife.info/force...ically-after-logging-out-with-forceautologon/

I'm not sure if this is what both you are talking about but whenever I
need to go to the Administrator Account from my User Account I log off
and it bypasses the welcome screen and is much faster. Should I be
doing this or does it matter?

Thanks,
Robert

Normally, if you log off one account, you would get the log-in screen to
choose what account to log into. If you are the only person with access
to your computer, then it doesn't really matter. If you like the way it
is now, just leave it.

 

[magineer02]

Normally, if you log off one account, you would get the log-in screen to

choose what account to log into. If you are the only person with access

to your computer, then it doesn't really matter. If you like the way it

is now, just leave it.

--

Glen Ventura

MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009

CompTIA A+

Ok, Many thanks,,,


Robert

 

[BillW50]

1 or 2 GB was the recommended size back when the testing was done....
drives didn't approach 1TB at that time. I don't think that 2GB was a
barrier.... I don't remember at what size they saw problems begin, but
it was larger than 2GB.

Yes, I don't know of a way to adjust the size smaller than what the
slider allows, on a very large drive, e.g. 1TB. It's a bit frustrating
that only the percentage slider was included, without a GUI for actual
size in numbers. There are Registry entries for SR but most should not
be tampered with.

One option that might be a workaround specifically on very large drives
(and one of the few safe Registry changes you can make) is to adjust the
Registry setting for the restore points Time to Live (TTL), which is set
in seconds. When a restore point reaches this time and it is still on
the system, it gets deleted. The default value is (7776000), which will
be 90 days, set in seconds.

Since restore points generally aren't very useful after about 30 or 60
days, and I try not to use any older than about 2 weeks, this setting
could be adjusted to one of those amounts, measured in seconds. That
would reduce the number of points on the system regardless of the disk
size set with the slider.

The setting is at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore

and the value that controls the TTL for the points is the DWORD
"RPLifeInterval"

It is set at the default of decimal 7776000 seconds, which is 90 days.
To make it 60 days, you would set it at 5184000
To make it 30 days, you would set it at 2592000
To make it 14 days, you would set it at 1209600

Only a very few of the settings in that Registry key are safe to
configure, and I would be wary of editing most of them, other than this
one, and possibly "RPGlobalInterval" ....which adjusts the amount of
elapsed time, in seconds, that System Restore waits before it creates
the automatic computer check points. The default value is 24 hours
(86400 in decimal). You could possibly change that to once a week or
every other day, but I don't know if that would be worthwhile.

Here's the info on the few Registry values that can be edited without
totally breaking things... this only applies to XP:
The Registry Keys and Values for the System Restore Utility-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295659

Delve at your own risk, and don't blame me if anything breaks!

All very useful information. Many thanks Glen.