Vista switches to different user on restart

[Harlan Pepper]

Each time I restart Vista Home Premium, it logs me into a user account
I don't use anymore. I then have to log off and then log in to the
account I want to use. If I delete the unused account and then
restart, Vista then tries to log me into the deleted account, giving
me the error, "The user name or password is incorrect." I then have
to "switch user" to a valid account at the startup screen.

How can I delete this account? Or, how can I make it so my preferred
account becomes "default" and remains the login account after a
restart?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Harlan,

Click start and type "control userpasswords2" and hit <enter>. Check the box
requiring users to logon. Click apply/ok and reboot. This should get you to
pause at the logon screen. Logon to your account and rerun the control, this
time first select your new account from the list and then uncheck the box.
Click apply/ok and follow the prompts to create a new autologon with your
new user account.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[mstenzel]

Thanks for the quick reply.

So, I'm checking the box, unchecking it after reboot, and then setting it up
again for autologon? What's the purpose of the second step of unchecking
the box, if I may ask?

Is this process moving my preferred account to the front of the line, so to
speak, in terms of user account logons?

Thanks again

 

[Rick Rogers]

The second step is to enable an autologon to your preferred account, per
your initial request.

There's no "front of the line", it's just the selected account using this
procedure.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[mstenzel]

OTB,
Thanks for the help. Yes, your way worked, except that the "Users must..."
box wasn't checked to begin with. So I checked it, unchecked it, and then
carried on (as you and Rick advised).

Things look good now.
Cheers.