asked on Tough Question? Make a Windows Account auto logon WITHOUT a reboot.
OK. I need to be able to set an existing account to auto logon without a reboot. So I cannot use sysinternals autologon because it requires a reboot.
I need to set the auto logon for the user account and then without a reboot the user should be logged in and the account needs to be available via remote desktop.
There will be only one user and that user will not have access to the registry and protection will be set so that the user is the only one that can log onto the system
Thus, I would like to simulate the reboot process for auto logon settings - maybe stop and restart some service or run some .dlls.
This seems to be a big challenge because I could not find anything on this issue.
Windows OSDesktops* User accounts* User permissions
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SaltyDawg
Likely approach will be to write a script to kill off + restart specific processes... as... simulating a reboot... without a reboot... seems difficult...
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If, for whatever reason, you indeed need to have a running session, set up autologin with the tool, and then log in manually as that user.
But as ste5an stated, just connecting with RDP should be sufficient. Unless there is an issue with creating new RDP sessions ...
But as ste5an stated, just connecting with RDP should be sufficient. Unless there is an issue with creating new RDP sessions ...
I need to set the auto logon for the user account and then without a reboot the user should be logged in and the account needs to be available via remote desktop.
by definition, auto logon is to automatically login at startup
if you don't want to reboot then you are implying there must be some trigger for the login process
for rdp, as long as it is enabled and the user is allowed to connect that way, there is nothing further to do
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Great input! Give me a couple days to evaluate