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Boot straight to the desktop Here's how: Using Windows 8's own built-in Task Scheduler to bypass the Metro Start screen is a delicious irony. First, open the Task Scheduler by typing Schedule tasks in the Settings search or type Schedule Tasks on Start. Once the Task Scheduler...

Hello everyone, i am running windows 8 pro and having a problem: If I shutdown (or restart) the pc from an account, then when the pc get turned on, windows want to login into that account automatically . For example : if i have 2 accounts named "ABC" and "XYZ" (both without password)...

Ok... so very quickly i am an XP user who is just now getting win7 so i hope this isnt too dumb of a question... I just need to know how to setup an auto login using a domain user account. In winXP i used tweakUI or Powertoys to set the auto login... this would only auto login after a reboot...

After the last update from Microsoft for Win 7 I lost the automatic log-in for my browser and for Facebook. I had to log in each time I got on the Internet. I know it was Win 7 causing this because I checked with my netbook that has XP and there was no problem with my auto login. I...

Whenever I came back to these forums I have to re-enter my login name and password. Other forums offer an automatic re-login with the login name and password stored in the local browser cookie. I HAVE enabled the cookie windows7forums.com but the auto-re-login does not work. Is...

I'm running W7 Ultimate 64-bit as an admin and I WANT it to prompt for a password at start-up. However, it doesn't and logs in automatically. There are no other users on the computer. The standard answer on the web is to "Run-> control userpasswords2" and then check the box there. It doesn't...

Hello, I wanted to setup my PC so that it would automatically login to Windows 7. With previous versions of Windows, I have left the login and password fields blank. I assumed the same was the case with Windows 7. So I went to setup the automatic login. I chose my administrator account and...

Hi, Yesterday I started fooling around with the Event Schedular. I set it to auto shutdown at 2:30 IF IDLE every night. I also set it to auto wake in the morning, and then auto login 30 minutes later... The problem is that now when I try to switch users it always boots into the same one...

I have a problem, where my newly installed Windows 7 x64 Professional seems to auto login and I have checked almost everything from register to using "netplwiz", still no go, always autologins. Could anyone help me with this, I don't like the idea of my computer autologin in... Thanks in advance !

Hi, I've got a computer with Windows 7 Home Premium. There are two users, but I want that the computers always starts with the same user (no password) and not to show the user select screen. Is this possible??

Hi, Just started with W7. Need to enter password each time log on. I'm the only user. How to stop the need to provide password each time...just wish W7 to start? Thanks. John

Hello, I do have some accounts on my Windows 7 system, but I would like my PC tot startup automatically with one of them. Should be easy, but... Jac :confused:

Is there a way to set my Remote Desktop to log back on after I finish a session? That is I Remote Desktop from my laptop to my Desktop at home, I log out of RDC from my laptop, home Desktop logs back on (instead of idling on the Log-in screen).

After a few days of using windows 7 build 7100 on my Asus EEEpc 1000HE (2GB ram) i've noticed that it takes a long time before the logon interface shows up. The system boots really fast but when it gets to the logon screen it stays black for about 30s except a little piece of screen in the top...

Howdy folks, I've got a Toshiba 5010 tablet that has fingerprint recognition. After upgrading to Windows 7, the login screen starts to paint and then flashes forever. If I boot in safe mode with networking, I can log in and see that there are events in the event log for logonui.exe crashing...

So it seems like windows 7 corrupted the password I set for the admin account because it did not work. Probably because I set the password then set it up to do automatic login using the 'control userpasswords2' command. So now i am using a vista password cracker but it can't seem to find the...

i downloaded the 7000 build from a torrent yesterday (because the microsoft site was down) and installed it. generally it works well but i am having one problem. for some reason the default administrator account was called Gebruiker... so i renamed the account to my name. but then the next...