Comments on: Make Windows 7 or Vista Log On Automatically

By: nka

nka — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:19 +0000

What about the Win XP feature “Change the way users login” feature where the username and blank password field option were available instead of the Welcome screen? Anyone know how to enable this for Win 7?

By: Cody Lambrecht

Cody Lambrecht — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:08:42 +0000

Is there a way to have the computer see what Wifi connections are available, and if there is a certain connection with let’s say “Home” as the name, have it automatically logon. Then if that wifi connection is not available, it would not automatically logon?

I’m assuming probably not. haha.
Thanks for your time.

By: maarty

maarty — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:48:30 +0000

if you cannot open advanced user accounts with “control useraccounts2″ like me and registry trick does not work try this:
open control panel > click on the arrow in adress bar > select All Control Panel Items

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:04:06 +0000

Hi I have windows 7 rc on an acer aspire one. I didn’t put a password on the admin account I set up in windows setup and as expected on loading windows, it automatically logged on to my user account. Then about a couple of ours when I restarted after installing an update it required me to click the account button to log on?! Now my first thoughts were un install the updates, which did not work. I have then done all suggestions mentioned above. I am usually pretty succesfull in trouble shooting these kind of problems but I am at my wits end and my next step is looking like a clean install but I would be very grateful for any sugestions. Thanks in advance!

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:56:05 +0000

I had the same problem, but I ended up using regedit to get the box visible, then selected the correct account to login through ‘control useraccounts2′. Restarted and works great

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Modify the ‘AutoAdminLogin’ value to ‘1′ to enable the checkbox.
The only other thing I needed was to change ‘DefaultDomainName’ AFTER I had set a user to auto login through ‘control useraccounts2′ since I had a local user and a domain user with the same name.

BTW, I don’t take responsibility if you foobar your PC, so use at your own risk.

DUDE, That works….
THX….

By: Arjan Salomons

Arjan Salomons — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:15:38 +0000

Just a note: This works perfectly on Windows 7, too!

By: jd2066

jd2066 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:37:38 +0000

@hadlyever: Goto Power Options in Control Panel, Click “Choose what the power buttons do” on the left, click “Don’t require a password” and click “Save Changes”.
Note: If the password radio buttons are grayed out click “Change settings that are currently unavailable” and click Continue for them to appear.

By: hadlyever

hadlyever — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:08:00 +0000

this article gets me halfway there. yes i dont have to enter a password, but i still have to click on the button to logon. how do i get windows to simply go straight to my desktop on startup and when it comes out of sleep mode?

By: Rain

Rain — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:21:32 +0000

I cannot check the the box “logon isn’t nessesary after sleep”
What to do about that?

By: Alvin

Alvin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:38:35 +0000

You ought to change your instruction to send your advisee to start, run, then control…… I found the search didn’t find the program in index, but using run worked fine.