{"id":146,"date":"2012-05-11T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-05-11T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:50:12","slug":"autologon-win7-w2k8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Autologon Win7 &#8211; W2K8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s how to get the missing checkbox back and configure Autologon:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code\">reg add \"HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon\" \/v AutoAdminLogon \/t REG_SZ \/d \"1\" \/f<\/pre>\n<p>control userpasswords2<\/p>\n<p>You may find that you need to configure the default domain, as well.  If so, enter the following (all on one line) at a CMD prompt, edited to user your domain name:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code\">reg add \"HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon\" \/v DefaultDomainName \/t REG_SZ \/d \"domain\" \/f<\/pre>\n<p>####################################################<\/p>\n<p>Once you join a server to a domain, Windows will automatically delete the AutoAdminLogon value from the HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon registry key. This causes the userpasswords2 control to hide the &#8222;Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer&#8220; check box shown above.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to get the missing checkbox back and configure Autologon:<\/p>\n<p>    * Open a CMD prompt and enter the following (all on one line):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code\">reg add \"HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon\" \/v AutoAdminLogon \/t REG_SZ \/d \"1\" \/f<\/pre>\n<p>    * Click Start, Run and enter control userpasswords2<br \/>\n    * Clear the checkbox for Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer and click OK<br \/>\n    * Enter the user name and password that will be used for Autologon and click OK<\/p>\n<p>You may find that you need to configure the default domain, as well.  If so, enter the following (all on one line) at a CMD prompt, edited to user your domain name:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code\">reg add \"HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon\" \/v DefaultDomainName \/t REG_SZ \/d \"domain\" \/f<\/pre>\n<p>When the computer starts up the account you specified will be logged in automatically. Note that the password is encrypted on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>This tip works for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. <\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/03\/how-to-enable-autologon-in-windows.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/03\/how-to-enable-autologon-in-windows.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/03\/how-to-enable-autologon-in-windows.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/04\/how-to-enable-autologon-for-windows.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/04\/how-to-enable-autologon-for-windows.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.expta.com\/2008\/04\/how-to-enable-autologon-for-windows.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s how to get the missing checkbox back and configure Autologon: reg add &#8222;HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon&#8220; \/v AutoAdminLogon \/t REG_SZ \/d &#8222;1&#8220; \/f control userpasswords2 You may find that you need to configure the default domain, as well. If so, enter the following (all on one line) at a CMD prompt, edited to user your domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-win7-w2k8","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}