How to Autologin via Regedit

If you are working on a Kiosk or some sort of shared PC you may not always want the End-users to have access to the passwords. So what we could do is set up an autologin for them so when they turn on their PC it will autologin for any shared account that we choose.

Make your way over to the registry editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Change the following keys

DefaultDomainName: *insertdomainhere*

DefaultUserName: *insertusernamehere*

AutoAdminLogon: 1 (Inserting 1 turns autologin on and makes it active for the account you are logging into)

See if there is a string called DefaultPassword. If it’s present just type in the password you want to use.

If the DefaultPassword String is not available you can create it. Right-click on any white area in the window and select New -> String Value Name it DefaultPassword.

Insert the password for the new string that you just created. This will be the AD user’s password.

Congratulations! Autologin is now set up. Please reboot the PC and make sure that Autologin is working correctly.