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How is it possible to enable the Automatic Log-on in Microsoft Windows 2000?

Troubleshooting


Problem

Sometimes it is necessary to automatically restart the computer (i.e. for the IBM Rational® product's Silent install option). This requires the computer to know the Log-on settings and passwords, which means they have to be stored somewhere.

Cause

This storing place is the Microsoft® Windows® Registry, in the following Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Under this key the following values have to be set:

- DefaultDomainName
- DefaultUserName
- DefaultPassword

Also, the AutoAdminLogon entry has to be set to "1" (if it doesn't exist already, a new string called "AutoAdminLogon" should be created).

More information on this is available from the Microsoft Support Page, on the link listed below.

HOW TO: Enable Automatic Logon in Windows (Q310584)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310584

Resolving The Problem

To automate this process, the attached utility AutoLogon.exe can be used, which sets the mentioned parameters. As input parameters it takes the arguments provided in the command line:

AutoLogon <DomainName> <UserName> <Password>

i.e.:

AutoLogon Rational DummyUser IDontKnow

would set the following Registry keys:

- DefaultDomainName = "Rational"
- DefaultUserName = "DummyUser"
- DefaultPassword = "IDontKnow"
- AutoAdminLogon = "1"

To reset the values of this keys (i.e. after the silent install is done), the program AutoLogon should be called with no arguments provided in the command line.
Calling just AutoLogon would set the Registry keys to the following values:

- DefaultDomainName = ""
- DefaultUserName = ""
- DefaultPassword = ""
- AutoAdminLogon = "0"

This is disabling the Auto Logon option, since the AutoAdminLogon key is set to 0.



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Historical Number

123352510

Document Information

More support for:
Rational Suite

Software version:
2003.06.00

Operating system(s):
Windows

Document number:
326481

Modified date:
27 December 2019

UID

swg21128426