{"id":114,"date":"2009-12-31T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rabihtawil.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:45:47","slug":"how-to-enable-autologon-for-windows-server-2008-member-servers-and-windows-7-member-workstations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Autologon for Windows Server 2008 Member Servers and Windows 7 Member Workstations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-115\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/?attachment_id=115\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115\" title=\"autologon\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rabihtawil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/autologon.png\" alt=\"autologon\" width=\"371\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">autologon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once you join a server to a domain, Windows will automatically delete the <strong>AutoAdminLogon<\/strong> value from the <strong>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon<\/strong> registry key. This causes the userpasswords2 control to hide the &#8220;<strong>Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer<\/strong>&#8221; checkbox shown above.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to get the missing checkbox back and configure Autologon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a CMD prompt and enter the following (all on one line):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: courier new; font-size: 85%;\"><strong>reg add &#8220;HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon&#8221; \/v AutoAdminLogon \/t REG_SZ \/d &#8220;1&#8221; \/f<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Click <strong>Start<\/strong>, <strong>Run<\/strong> and enter <strong>control userpasswords2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Clear the checkbox for <strong>Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer<\/strong> and click OK<\/li>\n<li>Enter the user name and password that will be used for Autologon and click OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the computer starts up the account you specified will be logged in automatically. Note that the password is encrypted on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>This tip works for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you join a server to a domain, Windows will automatically delete the AutoAdminLogon value from the HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon registry key. This causes the userpasswords2 control to hide the &#8220;Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer&#8221; checkbox shown above. Here&#8217;s how to get the missing checkbox back and configure Autologon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raytawil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}