Vista switches to different user on restart

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?

press start and in the search box type

control userpasswords2

and press enter

a small window will appear, uncheck the box that says "users must,..bla bla"
and then enter the username of the user you want to auto-login and if you
have a password add it too, if you dont have a password just leave then
blank press ok apply etc

do a restart and try it

tell me if this resolves your problem


"Harlan Pepper" <> wrote in message
news:13e114fe-c3f9-4e38-a653-...
> 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?

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.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Harlan Pepper" <> wrote in message
news:13e114fe-c3f9-4e38-a653-...
> 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?

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" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Harlan Pepper" <> wrote in message
> news:13e114fe-c3f9-4e38-a653-...
> > 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?
>
>

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.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"mstenzel" <> wrote in message
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> 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" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Harlan Pepper" <> wrote in message
>> news:13e114fe-c3f9-4e38-a653-...
>> > 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?
>>
>>

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.

"On the Bridge! (An MVP upgrade)" wrote:

> press start and in the search box type
>
> control userpasswords2
>
> and press enter
>
> a small window will appear, uncheck the box that says "users must,..bla bla"
> and then enter the username of the user you want to auto-login and if you
> have a password add it too, if you dont have a password just leave then
> blank press ok apply etc
>
> do a restart and try it
>
> tell me if this resolves your problem
>
>
> "Harlan Pepper" <> wrote in message
> news:13e114fe-c3f9-4e38-a653-...
> > 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?
>
>
>