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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The
first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
I haven't done anything with it in 5536. But in previous builds you click
Start, type netplwiz, press Enter, and clear that first checkbox. "Jo" wrote in message ... I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
I've done this on earlier versions of Vista and it worked like a charm (that
and the control userpasswords2 which is the same.) However it has no effect on RC1. This is quite annoying especially with the number of reboots required on installation and when testing applications/hardware. I understand the need on a network but with a stand alone machine this should not be necessary. I should be able to control my machine as I see fit. =( "Alan Simpson" wrote in message ... I haven't done anything with it in 5536. But in previous builds you click Start, type netplwiz, press Enter, and clear that first checkbox. "Jo" wrote in message ... I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
In another forum I found this solution and with me and RC1 it works
perfectly. I quote Peter Lawton: "Try putting the setting directly into the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultDomainName"="domainname" "DefaultUserName"="username" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "DefaultPassword"="password" Filling in domainname, username and password as appropriate" I don't have a domain, so I omitted that part. "Jo" wrote: I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
In another forum I found this solution and with me and RC1 it works
perfectly. I quote Peter Lawton: "Try putting the setting directly into the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultDomainName"="domainname" "DefaultUserName"="username" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "DefaultPassword"="password" Filling in domainname, username and password as appropriate" I don't have a domain, so I omitted that part. So you see, you will be able to controll your machine as you see fit :-)) "Hank Keleher" wrote: I've done this on earlier versions of Vista and it worked like a charm (that and the control userpasswords2 which is the same.) However it has no effect on RC1. This is quite annoying especially with the number of reboots required on installation and when testing applications/hardware. I understand the need on a network but with a stand alone machine this should not be necessary. I should be able to control my machine as I see fit. =( "Alan Simpson" wrote in message ... I haven't done anything with it in 5536. But in previous builds you click Start, type netplwiz, press Enter, and clear that first checkbox. "Jo" wrote in message ... I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
I just tride Start, type netplwiz, press Enter, and clear that first
checkbox. an it duznt werk!!!! The checkbox in the netplwiz window iz returned un-checked after restart BUT I still had to deal with the SignIn button with my user name. Going into the registry directly with regedit is not my idea of a wonderful and much acclaimed new operating system. Garry "Hans Schuts" wrote in message ... In another forum I found this solution and with me and RC1 it works perfectly. I quote Peter Lawton: "Try putting the setting directly into the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultDomainName"="domainname" "DefaultUserName"="username" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "DefaultPassword"="password" Filling in domainname, username and password as appropriate" I don't have a domain, so I omitted that part. So you see, you will be able to controll your machine as you see fit :-)) "Hank Keleher" wrote: I've done this on earlier versions of Vista and it worked like a charm (that and the control userpasswords2 which is the same.) However it has no effect on RC1. This is quite annoying especially with the number of reboots required on installation and when testing applications/hardware. I understand the need on a network but with a stand alone machine this should not be necessary. I should be able to control my machine as I see fit. =( "Alan Simpson" wrote in message ... I haven't done anything with it in 5536. But in previous builds you click Start, type netplwiz, press Enter, and clear that first checkbox. "Jo" wrote in message ... I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |
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How do I eliminate the welcome screen?
Thanks for the post. I was able to bypass the welcome screen by adding the
DefaultUserName entry to the registry as a string entry. I also checked several XP machines and found that the DefaultDomainName is set to the computer's name when you don't really have a domain so I added that entry also. Now the machine will automatically boot up, but it still appears to go through the welcome screen. On the beta 2 version you didn't see the welcome screen at all you just went from a black screen to your desktop. Does anyone know if there is a way to bypass the welcome screen completely? "Hans Schuts" wrote: In another forum I found this solution and with me and RC1 it works perfectly. I quote Peter Lawton: "Try putting the setting directly into the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultDomainName"="domainname" "DefaultUserName"="username" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "DefaultPassword"="password" Filling in domainname, username and password as appropriate" I don't have a domain, so I omitted that part. "Jo" wrote: I seem to have seen an answer to this before, but can't find it now. The first few times I logged on ti=o Vista 5534, I went directly to the desktop, since I am the only user of the computer. However, now it stops at the welcome page and I must click on my user name before it will continue. How can I tell Vista to log on without this screen? Does anyone know why it would begin popping up after not doing so at first? |