Re: Autologon woes

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From: Alexander Suhovey (asuhovey_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:55:58 +0400

Hi Danny,

>Win2k server doesnt have a control panel applet to set the autologon
You can use TweakUI for this or issue following command to bring up
corresponding UI: "control userpasswords2". Can't check right now if this
command will work on 2k server though.

hth,
Al.

"Danny" <nonya@nonya.com> wrote in message
news:g866f0p0htbpmv3p7tjv0nj3hqb4otis1p@4ax.com...
> Yep, have done that.. I have checked the keys manually, and used a
> tool from Sysinternals to set them as well.
>
> Win2k server doesnt have a control panel applet to set the autologon.
> Sysinternals has a utility that works similar to the other autologon
> utilities, but actually encrypts the password, where most don't.
>
> I'm pulling my hair out over this..
>
> Registry looks good.
> Have used sysinternals and a few other tools to unset and set the
> autologon.
> I have verified the Gina.dll registry entries remove ok, and all that.
> It's supposed to be working, but it's not.
>
> Danny
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:05:34 +0100, "ptwilliams" <ptw2001@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Get into the registry and navigate to:
> > -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> >
> >And check that the DefaultUserName, DefaultDomainName, etc. are all OK.
If
> >not, reconfigure. When in a domain environment, it's much easier to
> >configure this via the registry anyway. The only plus to the control
panel
> >mechanism is that it hashes the password...
>

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