Auto Logon

Auto Logon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. Instead of waiting for a user to enter their name and password, Windows uses the credentials you enter with Auto Logon, which are encrypted in the Registry, to log on the specified user automatically.

[!WARNING] Although the password is encrypted in the registry as an LSA secret, a user with administrative rights can easily retrieve and decrypt it.

Auto Logon is easy enough to use. Fill in the dialog, and hit Enable. The next time the system starts, Windows will try to use the entered credentials to log on the user at the console. Note that Auto Logon does verify the submitted credentials however it does NOT verify that the specified user account is allowed to log on to the computer.