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[tlukareski]

Hello-

I need to know if there is a way to automatically log on to a machine after a reboot?  

I would like to log on to all workstations that run my installation as administrator (the password is the same for all machines) after the machine reboots.  I would like the log on to be as silent as possible.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks-
Thomas

[Marie Tupps]

Thomas

There sure is, I use it quite often.  The first thing I do is Get the users system login id and password, then update the registry entry.  I eventually will reset the entry after the installation has completed(optional).  The code I use is below.

Best of luck
Marie

Code Sample

Dlg_SysLogin:    szTitle = "System Login";    szMsg = "Please enter the system password for " +   szCurrentUser + ".";    svEdit1= szCurrentUser;      nResult=SdShowDlgEdit2 ( szTitle, szMsg, "UserName", "Password", svEdit1, svEdit2 );    Disable(BACKBUTTON);    if(nResult=CANCEL) then      bInstallAborted=TRUE;      Disable(STATUSEX);      Disable(DIALOGCACHE);      bInstallAborted=TRUE;      ConfirmCancel();    elseif(nResult = BACK) then      goto Dlg_SetupType;    else        Disable(LOGGING);      szAutoID = svEdit1;      if(svEdit1 = "") then        MessageBox("User must enter System Login, this field cannot be left blank!",WARNING);        szAutoID= "";        goto Dlg_SysLogin;      endif;      szAutoPwd = svEdit2;                             //create tge registry entry: RegDBSetDefaultRoot( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ); szKey = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\WinLogon"; nRegType = REGDB_STRING; nResult = RegDBSetKeyValueEx(szKey, "AutoAdminLogon", nRegType, "1", nvSize); nResult = RegDBSetKeyValueEx(szKey, "DefaultPassword", nRegType, svEdit2,nvSize);   ********************************************** OnEnd() //delete/reset the autologin (optional) RegDBSetDefaultRoot( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ); nRegType = REGDB_STRING; szKey = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\WinLogon"; nResult = RegDBSetKeyValueEx(szKey, "AutoAdminLogon", nRegType, "0", nvSize);       nResult =RegDBDeleteValue(szKey, "DefaultPassword");