How to Enable or Disable Automatic Logon at Startup in Windows Vista?


With the help of this setting you can set a user account that can be used to logon automatically when the Vista starts.

Note:

• If there is a single account with no password then it Vista will logon automatically to that account.

• Make sure that the password entered is correct.

• If you change the user account password then make sure to change it here also otherwise you will get an error at startup.


You can accomplish this in the following way:

1) Open Start Menu and type netplwiz or control userpasswords2 in the search box and press Enter key.



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2) Click Continue button if prompted by UAC

3) To enable automatic logon at startup follow these steps:

a) Check the option Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer



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b) Click on the desired user account

c) Uncheck the option Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer

d) Click OK button

e) Go to step 5

4) To disable automatic logon at startup follow these steps:

a) Uncheck the option Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer



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b) Click OK button

c) Exit this tutorial

5) Type the user account password

Note: If the user account has no password then leave the password field blank and go to step 7



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6) Retype it to confirm

7) Click OK button