Comments on: How to Enable Auto Logon to Windows XP and Vista Joined as Domain Member

By: Windows Auto Sign On In Locked Mode : Steve Smith's Blog

Windows Auto Sign On In Locked Mode : Steve Smith's Blog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:53:40 +0000

[...] you want automatic logon, you can follow these instructions which should fork for XP/Vista/7. That gets you a system that logs into a particular user account automatically, but of course [...]

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:11:49 +0000

OK – but surely there’s a way to bypass the auto logon once you’ve followed the instructions above? I added the Registry Key
ForceAutoLogon into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
so everytime we logout it will auto login.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:50:57 +0000

Madeline, to do this you should just log out of the account that logs in. you should get to the login screen at that point. I’m not sure of a real bypass like XP has.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:48:39 +0000

How do you then bypass the auto logon that you’ve set in a Vita domain to temporarily login as a different user? In XP you could hold the SHIFT key but this does not seem to work with Vista.

By: auto-logon expert

auto-logon expert — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:43:55 +0000

Look also at this autologon tool for XP/Vista that supports password encryption and auto logon to domain