Bios Wake Up -> Autologon?

[bunion]

Hi, I think there must be a way of pulling this off:

I have set my bios to turn the PC on at 9AM everyday. (Wanted every week day - not an option with my motherboard, shame about that) The idea being that when i'm at work my PC starts up and loads bit torrent and is accessible via remote desktop connection.

The problem is: for bit torrent (Vuze) to load up the user must log in. I have found out auto logon is possible, but I don't ever want my PC accessible without putting a password in, ever.

So does anyone know a way of configuring the PC to detect when it has been automatically booted: log on and then switch user so bit torrent can run in the background and the PC is secure, but not auto logon any other time?


If its any hint the PC will boot the same time everyday obviously, so can a scheduled task be made to log it on at 9.05AM and then quickly switch user?

Thanks for any kind of suggestion.

 

[vegettonox]

Set up the auto logon, then simply set a screensaver to come on after like 5-10 minutes and have it display logon screen at resume. If you set this up correctly your system will log on automatically and then after the set time your screen saver will kick in and if anyone tries to access your system they will be left with the logon prompt, autologon only works during initial boot up.

 

[bunion]

Nice. Thanks.

Haven't tried yet but here you can apparently enable or disable Win7 screen saver with a reg file.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/132549-screen-saver-enable-disable.html

So ill try this in combination with your suggestion, to detect when im back and turn off the screensaver. (and turn it back on) or perhaps just change the time on it.

 

[hollett]

if you need the computer to run the screen saver on startup then add a shortcut to the screen save in the startup folder on the start menu or add to the startup in the registry.

For example if you want the computer to run the blamk screen screen saver then just go to Start>Programs>Startup and add new shortcut.
give it any name you wish and for the exe path 'C:\Windows\System32\screensave.scr'.
the computer will then launch the screen saver on startup. and if it is not enabled in the display settings it will never bother you at any other time.

 

[bunion]

Thanks, will give this a go soon and let you know how it goes.

 

[nocheese]

Make a 2nd account with little to no privileges. Let that account be the auto-login account that bittorrent runs in.

 

[sergio81]

Use LogonExpert's logon scheduler, it allow plan the autologon event with bios wake-up option.

 

[bunion]

Thank you for the replies, I got there by setting my Windows account to auto logon. Unfortunately the shortcut to the screensaver did not work with Windows 7 but making a shortcut to switch user http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61307-switch-user-shortcut-create.html and placing it in the startup folder did.

My bios auto wake up only allows auto computer turn on either everyday, or a specific day of the month. Does anyone know how I could make this only occur on weekdays? I thought about a timer plug, like this : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-...RF9A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1299962421&sr=8-3 that could remove power on weekends just before it tries to turn on, but its seems silly. Anyone got a better idea? I don't want to hibernate and bring it out of hibernation since hiberfile.sys will use a lot of space on my HDD, and I will have to constantly hibernate.