I'm an old fossil who has been using win98 SE for years, but I have no experience with 2k Pro. I recently bought a second hand PC with 2k Pro. I created an account for myself as an administrator, but the system automaticly boots into an account for the old user (also an administrator). How can I make 2k boot to my account, or the logon box? I would rather not delete the old account yet if I can help it.
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heres the kb article on how to enable it:
to disable, go to start-run-regedit, then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value: ForceAutoLogon
Type: REG_SZ Data: 1
change the value from "1" to "0" (zero) and reboot- that should clear it up.
to disable, go to start-run-regedit, then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value: ForceAutoLogon
Type: REG_SZ Data: 1
change the value from "1" to "0" (zero) and reboot- that should clear it up.
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Thanks jimp56.
That solved my problem. Now the logon box pops up. A couple of minor corrections were necessary in my case, the "WindowsNT" part of the key had a space in it, so it was actually "Windows NT":
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
And the value was not "ForceAutoLogon", but "AutoAdminLogon"
I add the above, not to be pedantic, but because others that follow may be as lazy as me and try pasting them into the search function.
I also changed the "DefaultUserName", and "AltDefaultUserName" (though I'm not sure what this last does), to my logon name.
Thanks again, I'm happy now, for the moment, though I'm sure I will be plaguing this forum in the weeks to come.
P.S. I found a free utility "ERUNT", that claims to do registry backup and restore for Win2k/XP, much the same as the old DOS "scanreg/restore" did in Win98. The registry can be restored via the Windows Recovery Console, or another Windows OS if it can access the drive. Sounds like a must have to me:
That solved my problem. Now the logon box pops up. A couple of minor corrections were necessary in my case, the "WindowsNT" part of the key had a space in it, so it was actually "Windows NT":
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
And the value was not "ForceAutoLogon", but "AutoAdminLogon"
I add the above, not to be pedantic, but because others that follow may be as lazy as me and try pasting them into the search function.
I also changed the "DefaultUserName", and "AltDefaultUserName" (though I'm not sure what this last does), to my logon name.
Thanks again, I'm happy now, for the moment, though I'm sure I will be plaguing this forum in the weeks to come.
P.S. I found a free utility "ERUNT", that claims to do registry backup and restore for Win2k/XP, much the same as the old DOS "scanreg/restore" did in Win98. The registry can be restored via the Windows Recovery Console, or another Windows OS if it can access the drive. Sounds like a must have to me:
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