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Author Topic: Ed Bott Vista Tip: Login Automatically  (Read 7,767 times)

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Ed Bott Vista Tip: Login Automatically
« on: August 12, 2007, 04:49 PM »
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As long as you understand and accept the risks, here’s how to enable auto-logon (these steps work identically in all Vista editions, including Home Basic and Home Premium). These instructions assume you are using a workgroup configuration and not logging on to a Windows domain:

1. From an account in the Administrators group, click Start. In the search box, type netplwiz and press Enter. This opens the Advanced User Accounts Control Panel shown here. (Update: If you’re trying to accomplish this in Windows XP, click Start, Run, and type control userpasswords2 in the Open box.)

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=273


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Re: Ed Bott Vista Tip: Login Automatically
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2007, 09:28 AM »
keeping a lot of these tips and things for vista in my notebook for when i get vista

don't know when, but thanks for these links

google notebook that is,
just right click and hit 'note this' and the link is saved in the notebook

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