Auto-Login for PACs

[Wesley Johnson]

Here's a quick Windows registry tweak that we use on all our public PCs for auto-login:

"1. Go to Start>Run (or you can also press the windows key+r)

2. Type regedit and press the enter key or click on OK. This will open the Registry Editor.

3. In the registry editor go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon

4. On the right pane of the registry editor you should now see a list of names and it’s values. Among these name check whether AutoAdminLogon, DefaultPassword and DefaultUsername are there.

5. If any of names are listed make them by: right click on empty area in the right pane, then select New>String Value and enter the value names: AutoAdminLogon, DefaultPassword and DefaultUsername (or only keystrings that are not present)

6. After creating them double-click each value and enter the following value data for the particular value
AutoAdminLogon Value : 1
DefaultPassword Value : the pasword of the user profile (example: pass123)
DefaultUsername Value : the username of the account you want to log in to (example: Administrator)
7. Thats it. Restart (reboot) your computer and next time it starts it will auto-startup and login entered username and password."

Those instructions came from this site: http://www.velikan.net/automatic-login-windows-account/. Sometimes you'll have to do it once or twice to get it to take; however, we've had pretty good luck doing that. 


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From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pruntel,Alison [Alison.Pruntel at FAUQUIERCOUNTY.GOV]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:31 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Auto-Login for PACs

***Please excuse for cross-posting***

We will be implementing Deep Freeze on our PACs in the coming months. We will be having the machines reboot in between sessions to ensure that the PCs are truly restored to a clean system. However, we are looking for a way to avoid having staff have to log the machines in each time/in between the sessions. Anyone have an auto-login process in place to address this? I am aware of the “control userpasswords2” utility, which is put in place before freezing the machine, but looking for some advice on how to best do this.

Thanks in advance,

Alison Pruntel
Electronic Resources Librarian
Fauquier County Public Library
11 Winchester Street
Warrenton, VA 20186
540-422-8515
alison dot pruntel at fauquiercounty dot gov




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