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Window 2000 Professional Logon
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:19 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:34 pm
by Tormentius
Check the event log for errors relating to logon (start, run, then type eventvwr.msc).
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:44 pm
by raw
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
AutoAdminLogon="0"
DefaultUserName- Your UserName
DefaultPassword - Delete
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:44 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:46 am
by raw
This is for any Windows machine and Autologon should only be set to 1 when you want to enable autologon.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:04 am
by 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?
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:09 am
by raw
corpse wrote: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
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:31 am
by corpse
Thanks very much