Bypassing Login Dialog 1

[reidsolberg]

I'm planning on running NT 4 Workstation for a person new to the world of computers. I'm aware that doing this may pose some more challenges, but I've chosen the stability of NT over the more "user friendly" 95 and 98. I'd like to know if it is possible to bypass the user login dialog and log in to an account automatically at bootup. If this can be done, can I have a limited user account load automatically, and have the administrator account available if I were to log off of the limited user account?

Thanks in advance, and Season's Greetings
Reid

 

[Aslamvs]

hi,

try this URL for auto login in Nt

http://www.health.ufl.edu/itcenter/helpdesk/network/net_100.html

oR use "TWEAK UI" for windows NT

HTH Aslam

 

[lifto]

Your other choice is to use regedit. Search for autoadminlogon and set the value to 1. You will also see defaultuser and defaultpassword. Set those to the users correct user name and password.

 

[PAndersen]

If the AutoAdminLogon string cannot be found, you will have to create it, see

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/13/

 

[reidsolberg]

Thanks for your quick responses. I actually located instructions for the above registry method and successfully implemented it. I had the administrator account log on automatically. My only problem was when I tried to log off of the admin account, I was logged off, and immediately logged in again, so I couldn't log on to the limited user account.

Reid

 

[wolluf]

hold down shift key as you log off? thread621-425054

 

[reidsolberg]

Thank you. The perfect solution.

Reid

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