Automatic Login to Windows XP
Automatic Logon to Windows XP
Convenience is one of the major reasons this tweak has become so popular. However, with convenience there is a price, and in this case that price is a lack of security. Due to the way it is implemented, anyone with local or remote access to the computer can easily navigate to the registry key and find out your password since it's stored as a plain text string. You've been warned.
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Data Type:
String Value // Value Name: DefaultUserName Data Type:
String Value // Value Name: DefaultPassword Data Type:
String Value // Value Name: AutoAdminLogon |
To avoid the inherent danger of editing the registry, the same results may be obtained by using the procedure detailed below.
Rather than editing the registry and exposing the account password to such easy scrutiny, I'd suggest downloading a Microsoft utility called TweakUI and use it to enable automatic logon.
TweakUI is part of the Power Toys collection and can be downloaded here.