Auto Logon account in Windows XP

[pnieset]

Hello, I am trying to get a PC I have her at work to auto logon. I have tried many different ways but none of them have been successful. What am I doing wrong?

I have tried 2 different ways with no luck at all. I have even tried this with WIN 7 PRO and with no luck either all I get from 7 is that the password I used said that it was incorrect, and yes I did tyoe it in correctly. lol

I have tried the command control userpasswords2 that this web site suggested.
http://www.wikihow.com/Enable-Automatic-Logon-in-Windows-XP

but when I went the unselect the spot to not make them user be prompted to sign in. that was not there.


I have followed this information to change th registry with no luck.

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
In Windows Vista/7, simply type regedit in Start Search and hit Enter.

Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type the user name to log on with,
and then click OK.

If DefaultUserName registry value name is not found,
create a new String Value (REG_SZ) with value name as DefaultUserName.

Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type the password for the
user account under the value data box, and then click OK.

If there is no DefaultPassword value, create a new String Value (REG_SZ)
with DefaultPassword as the value name.

Note that if no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically
changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon registry key from 1 (true) to
0 (false) to turn off the AutoAdminLogon feature.

In Windows Vista/7, DefaultDomainName has to be specified as well,
else Windows will prompt for invalid user name with the user name displayed as
.\username. To do so, double click on DefaultDomainName, and specify the domain
name of the user account. If it’s local user, specify local host name.

If the DefaultDomainName does not exist, create a new String Value (REG_SZ)
registry key with value name as DefaultDomainName.

Double-click the AutoAdminLogon entry, type 1 in the Value Data box,
and then click OK.

If there is no AutoAdminLogon entry, create a new String Value (REG_SZ)
with AutoAdminLogon as the value name.

If it exists, delete the AutoLogonCount key.

Also if it exists, delete the AutoLogonChecked key.

Quit Registry Editor.

Click Start, click Restart, and then click OK.

 

[Gee Bee]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp/ht/auto-logon-xp.htm

 

[pnieset]

Here is what I found works the best for me.

I changed and added some registry settings under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Add these string values

AutoAdminLogon REG_SZ 1
DefaultUserName REG_SZ userid
DefaultPassword REG_SZ password
DefaultDomainName REG_SZ Domain

Also if these values are not there add them as well

AltPassword REG_SZ password
AltDefaultUserName REG_SZ userid
AltDefaultDomainName REG_SZ Domain

by adding these changes my XP auto logged in just fine.