Window 2000 Professional Logon

[corpse]

A friend just called me and said when he started his computer he gets this message that the system could not log him on. There was no password on the username but even clicking OK with password field blank it says could not log you on.

Managed to get in with administrator account and removed this password but when the computer starts it says the same thing. Have to change the username to administrator and then click OK.

In the user accounts in control panel the box the says users must use a name and password to use this computer is unchecked.

Any help would be great

[Tormentius]

Check the event log for errors relating to logon (start, run, then type eventvwr.msc).

[raw]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
AutoAdminLogon="0"
DefaultUserName- Your UserName
DefaultPassword - Delete

[corpse]

Going to his place tomorrow and I just want to make sure. This is the correct registry setting for autologon with 2000 Professional?

I checked the same thing with my computer, XP Pro, and it has autologon set to 0 and default username. It does not have a default password line.

Mine is set to autologon 0 and it is set to crt, alt, del and then a password to enter.

Should autologon be 1 or is Windows 2000 Pro different?

We want it to log on without promting for username or crt, alt, del

[raw]

This is for any Windows machine and Autologon should only be set to 1 when you want to enable autologon.

[corpse]

Sorry to be dense abouit this, but we want windows to log on automatically straight into windows without any prompting.

So, we set it to autologon 1, right?

[raw]

Sorry to be dense abouit this, but we want windows to log on automatically straight into windows without any prompting.

So, we set it to autologon 1, right?

AutoAdminLogon="1"
DefaultUserName="<username>"
DefaultPassword="<password>"

Reboot

[corpse]

Thanks very much