HOWTO Automatic Login on Vista

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Automatic login was fairly easy with XP and only a tad fiddly with 2003, and now this article describes Automatic Login on Vista which is now a registry hack.

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Solution

The following solutions also work with XP.

RegEdit

  1. In the start menu search, type regedit to pull up the registry editor.
  2. Find in the tree HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
  3. Change AutoAdminLogon to 1
  4. Add/Change the String Value, DefaultUserName to the username you want to login automatically. To add new String Values just right-click New->String Value
  5. Add/Change the String Value, DefaultPassword to the corresponding password
  6. Add/Change the String Value, DefaultDomainName to the name of your computer, or if you are logging into a domain, the name of that domain.

IntelliAdmin

The previous solution was actually described over at IntelliAdmin.

They have a utility you can download to make the process easier and its freeware with no adware!

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