Trick of the Week 2 - Windows Autologon and Autolock

This trick will ease and secure your everyday system boot. Do you hate, waiting for login screen to appear and then wait for programs to load? Than this trick will help you in everyday process of turning on the PC. It's easy 5 step procedure, where you....of course....edit windows registry to accomplish that.

Run Registry Tweaker and under Windows XP database find tweak Enable Automatic Windows Logon. Under this tweak you have to apply 5 keys. Select them all and then click apply. You'll be prompted by 5 input boxes:

1. First is Turn ON/OFF automatic logon. Set that value to 1. Click OK.
2. Second is Auto Login domain name. The program gives you your domain/workgroup. Just click OK.
3. Third value is Auto Login User Name. Enter the valid user name, which you want to be auto logon, when booting. Click OK.
4. Fourth is Auto Login Password. Enter valid password for that user name. Click OK.
5. Fifth value is Lock PC on startup. Program gives you default value (rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation), just click OK and that's it.

Next time when your Windows will boot up, you'll be logged in automatically and after all programs are up and ready, system is locked. The good thing is that you can turn on your PC and go for tea/coffee/something and come back and start working. Just unlock it and you are ready to go.

Tool: Download it here.
You need Microsoft Framework 2.0 to run this tool. Get it here.