Guest stu9000 Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 I am trying to set up my machine to automatically log on to a user account. This works fine, but sometimes I need to log on to a different account for admin tasks etc. The problem I am getting is that holding the shift key during boot up does not bring up the windows logon screen. Windows automatically boots to the account I set up to automatically log on. I am using Windows XP SP2 and my auto logon registry settings are as follows, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="testUser" "DefaultDomainName"="" "DefaultPassword"="Password" "AltDefaultUserName"="" "AltDefaultDomainName"="" "AltDefaultPassword"="" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "ForceAutoLogon"="0" Any ideas?
Guest Nightowl Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Auto Logon Shift key override does not work stu9000 <stu9000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Thu, 9 Aug 2007: >I am trying to set up my machine to automatically log on to a user account. >This works fine, but sometimes I need to log on to a different account for >admin tasks etc. The problem I am getting is that holding the shift key >during boot up does not bring up the windows logon screen. Windows >automatically boots to the account I set up to automatically log on. I am >using Windows XP SP2 and my auto logon registry settings are as follows, > >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] >"DefaultUserName"="testUser" >"DefaultDomainName"="" >"DefaultPassword"="Password" >"AltDefaultUserName"="" >"AltDefaultDomainName"="" >"AltDefaultPassword"="" >"AutoAdminLogon"="1" >"ForceAutoLogon"="0" > >Any ideas? Hi stu Your settings are a little different from mine -- I'm guessing you followed the procedure in the MS Knowledge Base article 315231, or perhaps you used TweakUI? According to that KB article, you need to set ForceAutoLogon to 1 -- try that and see if it works. You might also be pressing Shift a little too early or too late -- you could try tapping it repeatedly instead, starting as soon as the system starts to boot. I set auto logon using Start | Run | control userpasswords2 and don't have the ForceAutoLogon entry or the DefaultPassword entry with my password showing. Maybe you might prefer to undo the changes you made and then try setting up auto logon this way? Start | Run, type: control userpasswords2 <ok> Click to highlight the name of the user you want to automatically log on. Uncheck the "Users must enter a username and password. . ." box. Click Apply. In the Automatically Log On window, your username should be showing. Type your logon password in both boxes. Click OK, then OK again to close both windows. Hope this helps -- let us know how it goes :-) -- Nightowl
Guest Nightowl Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Auto Logon Shift key override does not work Nightowl <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote on Thu, 9 Aug 2007: >Your settings are a little different from mine -- I'm guessing you >followed the procedure in the MS Knowledge Base article 315231, or >perhaps you used TweakUI? According to that KB article, you need to set >ForceAutoLogon to 1 -- try that and see if it works. Hi again stu -- I just came across this article which explains why ForceAutoLogon=1 might be rather undesirable :-) : http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/06/544496.aspx If you have other people using the machine, you might want to try the control userpasswords2 method, that doesn't seem to have the same drawback. The replies to the article do imply that Shift still works with ForceAutoLogon, though :-) -- Nightowl
Guest stu9000 Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Auto Logon Shift key override does not work Thanks for the fast reply. After trying every single combination of registry settings we could think of and still getting problems with the shift key override we tried tapping the shift key like you suggested. Turns out that the timing is very important. It appears that you have to wait until the mouse cursor appears, then press shift and the override works fine. Thanks for the help. Stu
Guest Nightowl Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Auto Logon Shift key override does not work stu9000 <stu9000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007: >After trying every single combination of registry settings we could think of >and still getting problems with the shift key override we tried tapping the >shift key like you suggested. Turns out that the timing is very important. It >appears that you have to wait until the mouse cursor appears, then press >shift and the override works fine. > >Thanks for the help. Great, glad you got it sorted out :-) -- Nightowl
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