Looking for a TweakUI-like util for Windows 7

rak wrote:
> This link is for vista, but I think it will work on 7.
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...matically.html

Thanks, it looks like it may work.

Yousuf Khan

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:W2Yin.58738$G_2.44591@newsfe15.iad...
>
>> Exactly. Since I live alone and am the only user, I don't want to
>> mess with logons and passwords.
>>
>
> Thank you. That's why *I* have to bother with AV and antimalware
> applications.
>
> Learn something about Computer SECURITY.

I would suspect "Crash" knows as much or more about security as anyone
here. Check GRC forums for more info.

Trev wrote:
>
> "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4b8b673e$1@news.bnb-lp.com...
>> I'm looking for something equivalent to the TweakUI util that was
>> available at least up until Windows XP.
>>
>> Actually, the main functionality that I'm looking for is the ability
>> to auto-logon a specific user account at boot time, in a multi-user
>> machine. Is this feature available elsewhere in Windows 7 now?
>>
>> Another TweakUI feature I'm looking for is the ability to shrink the
>> "arrows" on a file shortcut.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> http://pcsupport.about.com/od/window...-windows-7.htm

Uh, okay, I reviewed these suggestions, and it's not what I'm looking
for. I don't want passwords to become disabled in general for the
system. I want it to still ask for passwords, I just want it to
automatically login to one particular account at startup and run a bunch
of programs in there that will remain in the background. With the old
Windows XP TweakUI, I could setup an auto-logon for one particular
account, which when you switch out of it, you still needed to enter a
password to get into it again. You also needed a password to get into
any of the other accounts.

Yousuf Khan

Gordon wrote:
> But WHY would anyone use auto-logon?

I see what the confusion is here. I don't want to disable password
logins completely on this system, I still want them. I just want to
auto-login to an account at Windows startup, and I always want that
account to be the first account to run on the system after startup. But
when you exit or switch out of that account, you will still be asked for
a password to get back into it. Same goes for all of the other user
accounts.

The suggestions I've been given so far, completely disable passwords
throughout the system, which is what I don't want! I agree, disabling
passwords is a _bad_ thing. The old Windows XP TweakUI allowed you to
auto-login to a fully password-protected user account at startup,
without disabling the passwords whatsoever.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>> But WHY would anyone use auto-logon?
>
> I see what the confusion is here. I don't want to disable password
> logins completely on this system, I still want them. I just want to
> auto-login to an account at Windows startup, and I always want that
> account to be the first account to run on the system after startup. But
> when you exit or switch out of that account, you will still be asked for
> a password to get back into it. Same goes for all of the other user
> accounts.
>
> The suggestions I've been given so far, completely disable passwords
> throughout the system, which is what I don't want! I agree, disabling
> passwords is a _bad_ thing. The old Windows XP TweakUI allowed you to
> auto-login to a fully password-protected user account at startup,
> without disabling the passwords whatsoever.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Try asking at the Win7 forums.
http://www.w7forums.com/
or
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...egory/windows7

On 3/2/2010 7:58 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>> But WHY would anyone use auto-logon?
>
> I see what the confusion is here. I don't want to disable password
> logins completely on this system, I still want them. I just want to
> auto-login to an account at Windows startup, and I always want that
> account to be the first account to run on the system after startup. But
> when you exit or switch out of that account, you will still be asked for
> a password to get back into it. Same goes for all of the other user
> accounts.
>
> The suggestions I've been given so far, completely disable passwords
> throughout the system, which is what I don't want! I agree, disabling
> passwords is a _bad_ thing. The old Windows XP TweakUI allowed you to
> auto-login to a fully password-protected user account at startup,
> without disabling the passwords whatsoever.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Start/run/control userpasswords2...then select the account that is
password protected and change it to auto logon...exactly like in XP
using TweakUI.

"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4b8b673e$1@news.bnb-lp.com...
> I'm looking for something equivalent to the TweakUI util that was
> available at least up until Windows XP.
>
> Actually, the main functionality that I'm looking for is the ability
> to auto-logon a specific user account at boot time, in a multi-user
> machine. Is this feature available elsewhere in Windows 7 now?
>
> Another TweakUI feature I'm looking for is the ability to shrink the
> "arrows" on a file shortcut.
>

I don't know about the shortcut icon arrow, but setting the autologin
in Windows 7 is easy - click the Start orb, type NETPLWIZ and press
enter, click on the user account you want to auto login, clear the
checkbox for "Users must specify a username and password to use this
computer" (or whatever the option is called exactly) and click OK. It
will then ask for the password for the account, and you are done.

--
Zaphod

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt

rak wrote:
> This link is for vista, but I think it will work on 7.
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...matically.html

So if one account has no password in the system among other accounts
that all have passwords, then the one without passwords will get
auto-logged on? That sounds interesting, except I can see people using
the computer will get lazy and just default to using that account
instead of their own.

Yousuf Khan

Frank wrote:
> Start/run/control userpasswords2...then select the account that is
> password protected and change it to auto logon...exactly like in XP
> using TweakUI.

Is that how XP's TweakUI used to do it? I didn't know that.

Yousuf Khan

On 3/3/2010 6:35 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>> Start/run/control userpasswords2...then select the account that is
>> password protected and change it to auto logon...exactly like in XP
>> using TweakUI.
>
> Is that how XP's TweakUI used to do it? I didn't know that.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Yep! Sure/was is.