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b. Type DefaultPassword as the value name, and then press ENTER.
c. Double-click the newly created key, and then type your password in the
Value Data
box.
If no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows XP automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon registry
key from
1
(true) to
0
(false) to turn off the AutoAdminLogon feature.
5.
Double-click the
AutoAdminLogon
entry, type 1 in the
Value Data
box, and then click
OK
.
If there is no AutoAdminLogon entry, create the entry. To do this, follow these steps:
a. In Registry Editor, click
Edit
, click
New
, and then click
String Value
.
b. Type AutoAdminLogon as the value name, and then press ENTER.
c. Double-click the newly created key, and then type 1 in the
Value Data
box.
6. Quit Registry Editor.
7. Click
Start
, click
Restart
, and then click
OK
.
After your computer restarts and Windows XP starts, you can log on automatically.
If you want to bypass the automatic logon to log on as a different user, hold down the SHIFT key after you log off or after
Windows XP restarts. Note that this procedure applies only to the first logon. To enforce this setting for future logoffs, the
administrator must set the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value:ForceAutoLogon
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 1
You can also use turn on automatic logon without editing the registry in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and in
Microsoft Windows XP Professional on a computer that is not joined to a domain. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click
Start
, and then click
Run
.
2.
In the
Open
box, type control userpasswords2, and then click
OK
.
Note
When users try to display help information in the User Accounts window in Windows XP Home Edition, the help
information is not displayed. Additionally, users receive the following error message:
Cannot find the
Drive
:\Windows\System32\users.hlp Help file. Check to see that the file exists on your hard disk drive. If
it does not exist, you must reinstall it.
3. Clear the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box, and then click
Apply
.
4.
In the
Automatically Log On
window, type the password in the
Password
box, and then retype the password in the
Confirm Password
box.
5. Click
OK
to close the
Automatically Log On
window, and then click
OK
to close the
User Accounts
window.
