How to boot up windows before you login

28 Apr 2006

How many times have you just been staring blanking at the computer screen waiting for windows to boot up and then wait again for windows to load your startup program.

I do it almost everyday and got real bored of it till i spotted this article on Booting windows before logging in at Lifehacker.

Well try it out its worth the try and it really may help you from not staring at the desktop watching the loading icon repeteadely turning upside down as soon as you reach office or for that matter when you start your computer.

Here’s how to do it:

Download Microsoft’s free TweakUI tool and install it.
Click your Start button, go to your Programs menu, and select Tweak UI from the “Powertoys for Windows XP” folder.
In the TweakUI window, double-click the “Logon” item in the left-hand column to expand it.
Click on the “Autologon” item underneath the “Logon” section.
Check the box that says “Log on automatically at system startup”
Click the “Set Password” button and enter in your windows login password
Click OK and close Tweak UI.
Download this .reg file and run it. When it asks you if you want to merge it with your registry, choose “Yes”.
NOTE: If you feel queasy about merging a reg file with your registry, you can also add it by hand. Go to Start > Run and type in “regedit” and press OK. Browse to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] and create a new String Value. Name it “Lock Computer on Startup“, and set the value to “rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation“