TweakUI - Auto-Login

[Keith]

I installed TweakUI on a number of XP Pro and also 2000 Pro machines on my
LAN which are used as a training suite to disable the login screen (I set
them to autologin).

However, the tutors have requested the login screen be reinstated.

Is there any way to disable auto-login on all these XP and 2000 machines
with a simple registry hack I can roll out over GPO otherwise I am going to
have to visit each machine personally.

Thanks

 

[Jon]

An easily distributed script should sort it
eg for XP (not sure about 2000) in vbscript
Copy into notepad and save with a .vbs extension (remove word wrap) or use
file attached



Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'Set the flag for no autologon
wshshell.regwrite _
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon",0,"REG_SZ"


Jon

 

[Keith]

Thanks

I'll give that a try this afternoon.

An easily distributed script should sort it
eg for XP (not sure about 2000) in vbscript
Copy into notepad and save with a .vbs extension (remove word wrap) or use
file attached



Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'Set the flag for no autologon
wshshell.regwrite _
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon",0,"REG_SZ"


Jon

 

[Stephen Harris]

I installed TweakUI on a number of XP Pro and also 2000 Pro machines on my
LAN which are used as a training suite to disable the login screen (I set
them to autologin).

However, the tutors have requested the login screen be reinstated.

Is there any way to disable auto-login on all these XP and 2000 machines
with a simple registry hack I can roll out over GPO otherwise I am going
to
have to visit each machine personally.

Thanks

"Hide Users on the Welcome Screen
When you add an account for certain users with Windows XP, their user names
will appear on the Welcome Screen. Sometimes a user needs to be added to a
Windows XP machine, because the user needs access (via the network) to
resources on the machine, but the user will not be physically logging in on
the computer. You can remove this user name from the Welcome Screen, while
still maintaining the user account.

1.. Start the Registry Editor
2.. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \
CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList \
3.. Right-click an empty space in the right pane and select New > DWORD
Value
4.. Name the new value exactly as the Username
5.. Leave the Value data as 0
6.. If you want to enable this user again on the Welcome Screen, either
double-click the Username value, and change the Value data to 0, or delete
the Username
7.. Close the registry editor"
8.. http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-10.html