Vista autoadmin logon

[jeff]

I am trying to set up several Vista machines as kiosks. Under XP,
one could give a defaultpassword, defaultusername, set
autoadminlogon=1 and forceautologon=1 and when the machine rebooted,
or someone logged off, the machine would log right back in. The nice
thing about this was that when I needed to do some administrative
task, I could hold down "SHIFT" and log off of the machine and it
would prompt me for a username and password. This allowed me to
login as administrator and change settings.

Under Vista, these keys do indeed force an auto logon after a reboot
or after someone logs off the machine, but I am unable to use the
"SHIFT" key to access the login box. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[Mac]

Had a quick search but couldn't identify a solution offhand - you could
check/refine this search

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...UNA:2007-17,SUNA:en&q=Vista+Logon+Admin+shift

You might want to consider a different approach for Vista.

 

[Adam Leinss]

Autolog.exe stills works for Vista:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13525.html

Note that this is listed for Novell, but it also works for regular
Windows authentication.

Adam

 

[jeff]

THanks for the suggestion. Yes, the tool works to set the autologon
parameters in the registry, but I am unable to use the "SHIFT" key
to halt the autologon and present a logon dialog box. Any ideas?

Jeff

 

[jeff]

A follow up...it seems if forceautologon=1 (enabled), the machine
will always log back in with the credentials stored in the registry
(defaultpassword, defualtusername). But if forceautologon=0
(disabled), the machine will only autologin after a reboot --
logging out just dumps you to a login screen. Holding down the
"SHIFT" key does not work in any configuration of the forceautologin
setting.

Also, I checked for an IgnoreShiftOverride key in the registry. It
does not exist.

Any other ideas?

Jeff

 

[Adam Leinss]

Jeff Wright ([email protected]) wrote in (e-mail address removed):

THanks for the suggestion. Yes, the tool works to set the autologon
parameters in the registry, but I am unable to use the "SHIFT" key
to halt the autologon and present a logon dialog box. Any ideas?

Works fine on my Vista kiosks here? Note that I let it auto log-in,
hold left shift, pick logoff and I'm presented the logon screen.

Adam

 

[jeff]

Hmm...I can't get that to work. I tried it many, many times, just to
make sure that I was doing it correctly. My systems will just log
right back in.

Perhaps there is a setting somewhere that I have altered that is
responsible for this. I am running Vista Business.

Jeff

 

[Adam Leinss]

Jeff Wright ([email protected]) wrote in

Hmm...I can't get that to work. I tried it many, many times, just to
make sure that I was doing it correctly. My systems will just log
right back in.

Perhaps there is a setting somewhere that I have altered that is
responsible for this. I am running Vista Business.

I'm running Enterprise and mine are on a domain, but they use a local
account to login.

Adam