Re: Auto Logon Shift key override does not work

stu9000 <stu9000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 9 Aug 2007:

I am trying to set up my machine to automatically log on to a user account.
This works fine, but sometimes I need to log on to a different account for
admin tasks etc. The problem I am getting is that holding the shift key
during boot up does not bring up the windows logon screen. Windows
automatically boots to the account I set up to automatically log on. I am
using Windows XP SP2 and my auto logon registry settings are as follows,

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="testUser"
"DefaultDomainName"=""
"DefaultPassword"="Password"
"AltDefaultUserName"=""
"AltDefaultDomainName"=""
"AltDefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"ForceAutoLogon"="0"

Any ideas?

Hi stu

Your settings are a little different from mine -- I'm guessing you followed the procedure in the MS Knowledge Base article 315231, or perhaps you used TweakUI? According to that KB article, you need to set ForceAutoLogon to 1 -- try that and see if it works. You might also be pressing Shift a little too early or too late -- you could try tapping it repeatedly instead, starting as soon as the system starts to boot.

I set auto logon using Start | Run | control userpasswords2 and don't have the ForceAutoLogon entry or the DefaultPassword entry with my password showing. Maybe you might prefer to undo the changes you made and then try setting up auto logon this way?

Start | Run, type: control userpasswords2 <ok>

Click to highlight the name of the user you want to automatically log on.
Uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password. . ." box.
Click Apply.
In the Automatically Log On window, your username should be showing.
Type your logon password in both boxes.
Click OK, then OK again to close both windows.

Hope this helps -- let us know how it goes :-)

--
Nightowl
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