Default Account selected at Logon screen- Change?

[EzioAuditore]

Hello,

BAsically, I've 2 accounts:

Admin- 'A', Standard- 'S'.

When the logon screen appears, the admin account 'A' is selcted by default i.e. a border surrounding the username, everytime I've to manually select my account and enter password.

I just want my account 'S' to be highlighted by default when the logon screen appears. Is it possible? Would appreciate any help.

And no, i don't want to use the automatic login option. Just what I mentioned above.

Thanks & Regards

Ezio

 

[Maguscreed]

I don't know if this is possible, but if a setting for it exist it would be in the logon and/or security policies.

 

[EzioAuditore]

Thanks but searched almost the whole group policy, didn't find any relevant setting...

 

[Maguscreed]

yeah, I just looked for you as well, I see nothing that really addresses that screen, only for setting it to the old win2k style login.

 

[EzioAuditore]

Seems that its not possible at all.. Our Genius Alien member (its a compliment if your reading Brink, , Brink too doesn't seem to know of any method other than auto-login which I don't want.

Answer : Welcome Screen with Default User

 

[richnrockville]

FWIW: something tells me that one of the choices will always be highlighted due to the requirement to login. I don't know of any way to make it the second selection.
You might be able to change the name so that the sort order will be the one you want first. It looks like the A's come before the S's.

give it a shot.

rich

 

[EzioAuditore]

FWIW: something tells me that one of the choices will always be highlighted due to the requirement to login. I don't know of any way to make it the second selection.
You might be able to change the name so that the sort order will be the one you want first. It looks like the A's come before the S's.

give it a shot.

rich

Yep, that was my guess too that usernames are sorted alphabetically. But I haven't tried renaming my standard acoount 'S' yet as I fear if something (user profile very likely) may get screwed-up

 

[richnrockville]

create a new adminstrator account starting with ZZZ so that you can get back in if necessary.
Give that a shot and rename the others..

Rich

 

[EzioAuditore]

Rich,
So you mean to create a new admin account and name it something. If all the three account appears in an alphabetical wise, it means that I'll have to rename my standard account to something starting with A to get it selected by default. Is that right?

 

[Brink]

Hello Ezio,

Rich is correct that the accounts will appear in alphabetical order, but only in order from the user account's original name on the log on screen. If the account is renamed, it will still retain it's original order at log on and will not change as Jav posted below.

 

[EzioAuditore]

Ok Rich and Brink, I'll give it a shot tomorrow morning. Gotta sleep.

 

[jav]

Even tough they do appear in alphabetical order in logon screen, I don't think that changing your account name now (after it already being created) will help you.
As far as I can remember, If you change account name after creation, it will not change it's folder names: C:\users\Whatever
And I think logon screen looks into it.

EDIT: I just checked it. Renamed my account into "AAAA", which should bring into the beginning according to the alphabetic order.
As I have speculated it did't rename user folder, and it didn't change logon order.

Therefore, I think the only way is, taking it into consideration while creating user accounts.

EDIT2: There is a confirmation of my theory from technet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com...i/thread/777b2086-19fb-4c75-9b8d-a88c07607f4e

 

[EzioAuditore]

So, its simply not possible.. unless MS releases an update to either change the account display order or make windows remember what account was used last and automatically highlight it the next time the pc is started.

 

[smittman]

I was researching this same issue and found this registry key can be modified to work:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI
LastLoggedOnSAMUser = Computername\username (or domainname\username for a domain account)
LastLoggedOnUser = .\username (or domainname\username for a domain account)
* Notice the DOT (.) before the username. This is to be used if it is a local machine account.

 

[DeaconFrost]

I'm assuming you want to do this because another person is using the computer and you want them to be able to log right in on boot up, without them having to take one extra mouse click to choose another user.

I was under the impression from my configurations I set up for my company that the last user to log in the one that will come up. On our company Windows 7 Pro systems, if I log in to a system as my admin account (local or domain, depending on the system) and then I reboot and log in as the user, their account will come up as the default each subsequent reboot until another aco**** is used.

 

[vao]

I'm assuming you want to do this because another person is using the computer and you want them to be able to log right in on boot up, without them having to take one extra mouse click to choose another user.

I was under the impression from my configurations I set up for my company that the last user to log in the one that will come up. On our company Windows 7 Pro systems, if I log in to a system as my admin account (local or domain, depending on the system) and then I reboot and log in as the user, their account will come up as the default each subsequent reboot until another aco**** is used.

How can i setup login to windows this way??

 

[DeaconFrost]

It works that way by default...the last user to log in comes up after a reboot.

 

[vao]

hm, not for me. I always get login screen with all accounts shown in alphabetical order from left to right.
Tested it on win 7 ultimate SP1 and W7 pro SP1. Any ideas?

 

[DeaconFrost]

hm, not for me. I always get login screen with all accounts shown in alphabetical order from left to right.
Tested it on win 7 ultimate SP1 and W7 pro SP1. Any ideas?

That's most likely due to the fact you aren't logging into a domain.

 

[vao]

Yes i dont have a domain. It is possible have logon screen like this without domain?