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Logon Automatically
How to Logon Automatically at Startup in Vista
Published by Brink
05-29-2007

How to Logon Automatically at Startup in Vista

INFO: Allows you to select and set a user account to be logged on automatically at the startup of Vista. By default all user accounts must logon at startup.

NOTE:
A) If you only have one user account without a password on your computer, then Vista will logon to that account automatically at startup.
B) If you have more than one user account and the one you want to have Vista logon to automatically at startup does not have a password, then leave the password fields blank in step 7 below.
C) If you forgot or lost the password for a user account, then see: How to Reset a User Account Password in Vista
D) If your computer is a member of a domain, then the check box for Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer will not be available. It will be grayed out instead.

WARNING: Be sure to enter the correct password for the selected user account to have Vista automatically logon to at startup. If this user account does not have a password, then leave it blank. If you change the user account password, be sure to change it here as well. If you enter or have a incorrect password for this user account you will get a Incorrect Password error at the next startup. When you click OK to this at the logon screen, you will then see a duplicate logon icon for this user account. You can fix this problem by loging on to another account, or boot into Safe mode (How to Start Vista in Safe Mode), and change the password to the correct one in step 7 below and restart again.

RELATED LINKS:
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3. How to Display Information About Previous Logons During User Logon in Vista

4. How to Change the Logon Screen in Vista

5. How to Change or Stop Password Expiration in Vista

6. How to Remove a Password from a User Account in Vista

7. How to Create a Password Reset Disk in Vista

8. How to Reset a User Account Password in Vista

9. How to Disable or Enable Password Protection on Wakeup in Vista

10. How to Change the Number of Logon Entries Allowed to be Saved in the Logon Cache in Vista

11. How to Create a Password for a User Account in Vista

12. How to Fix the "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." Error

13. How to Use and Change a Screen Saver in Vista

14. How to Add User Accounts Netplwiz to the Control Panel in Vista


EXAMPLE: Logon Screen
NOTE: With Automatic Logon, you will not see this anymore. Vista will boot into the desktop of the selected user account instead.

Logon_Screen.jpg


Here's How:
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type netplwiz or control userpasswords2 and press Enter.
NOTE: Your choice on which one to type. They both open the same window.

3. Click on Continue for UAC prompt.

4. To Turn On Automatic Logon -
A) Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box. (See screenshot below step 6)
B) Select a user account by clicking on the User Name to highlight it.
C) Click on OK.
D) Go to step 7.

5. To Turn Off Automatic Logon -
A) Check the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box. (See screenshot below step 6)
B) Click on OK.
C) Your done.

6. To Choose a Different User Account to Automatically Logon -
NOTE: For this step, you would have already had a user account selected to logon to automatically in step 4.
A) Check the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box. (See screenshot below)
B) Click on Apply.
C) Select a user account by clicking on the User Name to highlight it.
D) Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box.
E) Click on OK.
F) Continue to step 7.

Users.jpg

7. To Enter the User Account Password -
A) In the Password field, enter the selected user account's password. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If the user account does not have a password, then leave this field empty. See the WARNING at the top of the tutorial.

B) In the Confirm Password field, enter the selected user account's password again to confirm that it is the same as in step 7A.
NOTE: Be sure to enter the correct password for this user account. If this user account does not have a password, then leave it empty. See the WARNING at the top of the tutorial.

C) Click OK.

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I used this method, and it works fine. However, when I log off (not shut down), in order to log in as Admin, I am unable to enter a password. The mouse works fine, but it seems like the keyboard isn't working at that point.

It's a normal USB keyboard, and works on bootup and at all other times. But when I click on the password box, and type, no text is entered.

Any ideas? I'm sure it's not supposed to be like this after adding the auto login, right?
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Hi Rick,

I'm not sure why your keyboard would not be working. Might try switching keyboards to test.

Hope this helps,
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Updated to include multiple accounts and how to change between them.

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