Configure Vista For Automatic Logon
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Over the past few years, many technology vendors have put their focus more on security. Microsoft is no exception as is evident with the security enhancements in Vista. However, in some cases, all the security options may be overkill, especially if you are the only one who uses the computer.
If you do not share your computer with any other users and no one else has access to it, you can configure Vista to log you on automatically.
To do so, click Start and type netplwiz in the Search field and then press Enter. Click Continue when the User Account Control window appears. From the User Accounts window that appears, verify that your own user account is selected. Clear the Users must enter a username and password to use this computer option and click OK. Provide the password for your user account when prompted and restart your computer. Vista will automatically log on with your user account.
[tags]vista, automatic logon, automatic login, configure windows[/tags]
14 Comments
Ernie
April 17th, 2007
at 6:33am
Thanks, just what I was looking for! Very helpful
Robert Gordula
June 6th, 2007
at 8:42am
I have an active directory network at home because I want to centrally manage the user accounts for my family.
Do you know of a way to for my vista media centre which is a member of the active directory network to automatically login?
Kind regards,
Rob
Ed H
September 24th, 2007
at 6:00pm
Robert, there is no Vista “Media Center” (or “Media Centre” for you non-Americans,) edition. There is “Vista Home Premium”, which can not be part of a domain/active directory, and there is “Vista Ultimate”, which can.
Assuming you are really running Vista Ultimate, then you can follow the instructions here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=79468&view=findpost&p=542844
Bill G
November 23rd, 2007
at 4:08am
This is just what I was looking for. What’s with the windows help file on this topic?
Ika
March 29th, 2008
at 6:04am
Thanks a lot! Good Job!
D G
May 17th, 2008
at 11:47am
Thanks - very handy!
fkimplicity » Configuring Vista for Automatic Login
May 30th, 2008
at 8:26am
[...] On my troubled Acer laptop I changed the name of the administrator user to my name and added a strong password. Then I created a standard user account for the kids with no password and automatic login. Configure Vista For Automatic Logon [...]
Mike
August 24th, 2008
at 3:22am
Thanks, its a shame that options like this require a command like netplwis :s
MLZ
October 6th, 2008
at 12:11pm
Thanks a lot. This is just what I was looking for!
BobC
October 14th, 2008
at 10:26pm
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed, and happily, a quick search on Google brought me here first! I really appreciate your tips!
Andy
October 21st, 2008
at 7:15am
Thanks! You rock my world
Vista Virtual Machine « Linux Sagas
October 28th, 2008
at 4:39am
[...] Make it automatically log in. [...]
brian
November 11th, 2008
at 5:43pm
this was almost too easy, i figured there would be a tweak of somekind to make it do it like you could in vista but this is great. I was only using a password on my system because i access it via rdp etc and it needs one but wwhen i’m sat next to it i just want to turn it on and get on with it. cheers for the help guys. much appreciated.
Eric
November 17th, 2008
at 3:48pm
Thanks. That’s perfect. Does this effect remote desktop?
The user account management control is horrid when you access it from the control panel. You need to access it from Administrative Tools > Computer Management in order to disable accounts. Why did they do it that way? It’s just another example of why Vista is awful.