Re: Auto-login (Windows 7)

"John Aldrich" <> wrote in message
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>I realize this group is for Windows Vista, but since Windows 7 is
> mostly Windows Vista, I'm hoping solutions that work for Vista will
> work for Windows 7.
>
> I have a Windows 7 RC box attached to my active directory (2003) and
> am trying to set it up to automatically log onto the network. Has
> anyone here been able to do this with Vista?
>
> I have tried everything from modifying the user accounts to not need
> to enter a password (unable to do that -- I don't have that option)
> to
> editing the registry to installing Autologon from Sysinternals and a
> couple things I can't think of right now.
>
> If anyone has successfully managed this, please let me know,
> especially if you've done it on a Windows 7 box. :-)
>
> Thanks!

I've set up both Vista and Windows 7 to auto logon, but never in an
Active Directory environment. My method uses the same approach as
with previous versions of Windows (XP and 2K), so I don't know if it
will help but it is simple enough to try if you haven't already. I
modify the following registry keys / values:

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

I notice there is also a "DefaultDomainName" value that you might need
to set in an Active Directory environment.

Good luck, and let me know if it helped or not.

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