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How To Auto-Logon To A User Account At Startup With Vista

May 27th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

One of the annoying features of Vista is that because you have to create an account and a password for every other PC or device that you want to share files with. Because of this, everytime Vista all of these accounts are displayed, even if you don’t actually use them on the PC, and you also have to login everytime.

I spent sometime yesterday looking for a way to auto-logon to Vista, as having to login was really getting annoying on my Vista Media Center PC where I just wanted the PC to boot straight into MCE so that I could access my media. Having to login, meant I had to keep getting the keyboard out just to type in a password . I eventually found a way to setup Vista to automatically login to a selected account at startup.

Click on the Start button and type in ‘netplwiz‘. This will open the Advanced User Accounts menu
In the Users tab, highlight the account you want to login to Vista automatically with, and then ‘must enter a username and password to use this computer’
Click on ‘Apply’. A new window will now popup asking you to enter the password of the account you’ve just highlighted. Do this, and then click ‘Ok’
Click ‘Ok’ on the Advanced User Accounts menu to finish

Now, whenever you boot up, Vista will login automatically to your chosen account which is great if you are using a HTPC like me.

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#1

Trackback by gHacks tech news on 27 May 2007:

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One of the most annoying features of Windows Vista is the login screen that displays all user accounts on the system. You have to click on one of the accounts and enter the password from that user to be able to login and use Windows Vista.
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Pingback by How To Auto-Logon To A User Account At Startup With Vista « Niels Obst’s Weblog on 23 September 2007:

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#6

Comment by windows xp autologon on 20 February 2008:

Hi, look at this Vista AutoLogon tool we develeop that named LogonExpert I hope it will be interesting for this article readers
#7

Comment by berdux on 6 April 2008:

the same happens if you type there: control userpasswords2
#8

Comment by RobD on 10 August 2008:

Excellent!! but…..doesn’t work when resuming from S3 sleep [d'oh!!]
Can you overcome that problem
#9

Comment by RobD on 10 August 2008:

Hi, delete comment about no auto logon after resume.
That is controlled in power options…..my bad.