Vista :How to Log on automatically

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.)

2. Clear the check box to the left of Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer and then click Apply.

3. In the Automatically Log On dialog box, enter the user name assigned to the account you want to Windows to use each time you start up. Enter the password in both dialog boxes.

Now restart your system. You should bypass the logon screen and go straight to your desktop, just as you did in XP.

For a little more control over the autologon process, including the ability to set up Autologon for a limited number of sessions, download the Autologon.exe command line utility, created by Microsoft developer Andrew Jennings. Usage instructions and some interesting comments are available in this post on the Microsoft Shell Blog.

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