I just followed the procedure mentioned here : http://superuser.com/q/28647/57124
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One thing not mentioned in the post is that if you set AutoAdminLogin to 1 UAC also gets disabled .... which is awesome. This is because local crontab software will be able to access privalaged services (e.g. reporting services) running on the same computer.
PS: the computer is in a safe location such that anyone who has physical access to the machine is a friend.
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- Click Start, click Run, type
regedit
, and then click OK. In Windows Vista/7, simply typeregedit
in Start Search and hit Enter. - Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- Double-click the
DefaultUserName
entry, type the user name to log on with, and then click OK.IfDefaultUserName
registry value name is not found, create a new String Value (REG_SZ)with value name asDefaultUserName
. - Double-click the
DefaultPassword
entry, type the password for the user account under the value data box, and then click OK.If there is noDefaultPassword
value, create a new String Value (REG_SZ) withDefaultPassword
as the value name.Note that if noDefaultPassword
string is specified, Windows automatically changes the value of theAutoAdminLogon
registry key from 1 (true) to 0 (false) to turn off theAutoAdminLogon
feature. - In Windows Vista/7,
DefaultDomainName
has to be specified as well, else Windows will prompt for invalid user name with the user name displayed as.\username
. To do so, double click onDefaultDomainName
, and specify the domain name of the user account. If it’s local user, specify local host name.If theDefaultDomainName
does not exist, create a new String Value (REG_SZ) registry key with value name asDefaultDomainName
. - Double-click the
AutoAdminLogon
entry, type1
in the Value Data box, and then click OK.If there is noAutoAdminLogon
entry, create a new String Value (REG_SZ) withAutoAdminLogon
as the value name. - If it exists, delete the
AutoLogonCount
key. - Quit Registry Editor.
- Click Start, click Restart, and then click OK.
One thing not mentioned in the post is that if you set AutoAdminLogin to 1 UAC also gets disabled .... which is awesome. This is because local crontab software will be able to access privalaged services (e.g. reporting services) running on the same computer.
PS: the computer is in a safe location such that anyone who has physical access to the machine is a friend.
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