Re: Eliminating request for password at boot
From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:03:26 -0700
The password for an autologon account can not be blank.
Yes add the Reg_Sz string value
"DefaultPassword"
to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
with the cleartext password as it's value
-- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Dan" wrote: | Dave-Thanks for the reply, I see the line you refer to, it does have the | logon name, but there is no entry which mentions a password other than | passwordexpirywarning REG_DWORD 0x0000000e (14) Should I just add | "DefaultPassword REG_SZ Password"? Would this be a key, binary value, | string value or DWORD value? Assuming this works, I gather I would then | enter "Password" on boot, but how would it know then not to ask for | "Password" at boot? | | Dan
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