Automatic Login for Windows Vista
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – I decided to give Vista another go, and reinstalled it on my computer, along with SP1. Being a fresh install, I had to go through and set everything up the way I had it before, including the way Vista logs me in.
I want Vista to automatically log me in each time I start the computer up. I wasn’t sure how to do this, so I went to Google. One of the first hits I came across actually linked back to our Lockergnome.com blogging network. Thankfully, this isn’t so hard to do.
To open this in the UAC (or User Account Control) in Vista, go to the start/search area of Vista, and type in NETPLWIZ. Once you get there:
- UNcheck the box next to “Users should enter a username and password to use this computer”, and then press OK.
- Type the username and password for the user you want to automatically logon to Windows Vista when it boots up and press OK
- Reboot the computer
It’s that simple. Vista will remember the username and password, and you won’t have to log in every time you boot the computer.
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12 Comments
TheDub
October 2nd, 2007
at 10:18am
Back on Vista so soon Chris? Well I look forward to reading another rant anyways ha ha. But seriously you should review SP1 for us! Are there improvements? Any big differences? Performance? Stuff like that. Like you I want to use and love vista, already love the new GUI “Aero”. Unfortunately I can’t love something that has so many issues… mainly driver issues, and this is on a laptop that is Windows Vista Ultimate Ready! Anyways my 400 dollar copy of Windows Vista Ultimate continues to collect dust. Its been three months.. could it be time for me to give Vista another shot to?? Windows XP is so fast though…
Take it easy Chris
-TheDub
Jorgen Ch. Lysdal
October 2nd, 2007
at 10:39am
open the run box, type “control userpasswords2″. It will do the same thing, very old trick..
schemingturkey
October 3rd, 2007
at 9:40am
hey everyone,
i just joined and wanted to say hi. :)
Icy
October 3rd, 2007
at 10:03am
Tweak UI, which you mentioned, for Windows XP is available at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
Shee Chee Lim
October 4th, 2007
at 3:40am
Actually, if you hibernate (instead of shutting your PC) each time you are are done for the day, Vista will not prompt you for a password the next time you switch your PC back on.
Steven
June 9th, 2008
at 7:34am
I’ve been a Linux user for years now, and Vista has really blown me away. I haven’t encountered ANY software incapabilities and the system has frozen only once for me over Fx.
I game a lot and a stable system is a must; Vista has blown XP out of the water for me. Here is the problem: Vista works for most people, but not for all. I haven’t used one system (Vista) that has had any problems so I can’t counter anything you have said previously.
All of my hardware worked flawlessly and still does to this date. Vista is far better than XP when it works.
joe
June 26th, 2008
at 3:39pm
switcher gets you SOME expose features
http://insentient.net/
Paul Creamer
July 17th, 2008
at 10:47am
Many good ways to do same thing.
However, still many want to be able to login directly on one userid and still have the others around if needed.
daniel chilla
October 24th, 2008
at 2:19am
A little correction of the above, and thanks for the help as well:
Where you above write: “UNcheck the box next to “Users should enter a username and password to use this computer”, and then press OK. ”
There should be: “UNcheck the box next to “Users should enter a username and password to use this computer”, and then press Apply. ”
Thanks for the tip again
Danny Whitt
January 17th, 2009
at 7:54am
Thanks for this useful tip, Chris. You would think that something like this wouldn’t be so well hidden…
Danny Whitt
January 17th, 2009
at 8:00am
Should have mentioned, also, that this tip is confirmed to work exactly as described here in Windows 7 Beta… Cheers!
Oliver
August 20th, 2009
at 4:51am
Can’t you just press: Windows Key + R (This is how you get onto run on Vista) then type in: control userpasswords2 ?
I know you can do this on XP.