{"id":1035,"date":"2014-01-09T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:47:29","slug":"enable-automatic-administrator-login-windows-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Enable automatic Administrator login &#8211; Windows server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really like to do this, but sometimes you are left with no choice.  Here is how to have a Windows server automatically login to the Administrator account:<\/p>\n<p>Run regedit.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right mouse click on Winlogon and add the following String Values with the following settings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;AutoAdminLogon&#8221;=&#8221;1&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;DefaultUsername&#8221;=&#8221;mydomain\\Administrator&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;DefaultPassword&#8221;=&#8221;mypassword&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really like to do this, but sometimes you are left with no choice. Here is how to have a Windows server automatically login to the Administrator account: Run regedit. Navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon] Right mouse click on Winlogon and add the following String Values with the following settings: &#8220;AutoAdminLogon&#8221;=&#8221;1&#8221; &#8220;DefaultUsername&#8221;=&#8221;mydomain\\Administrator&#8221; &#8220;DefaultPassword&#8221;=&#8221;mypassword&#8221; Then, reboot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[353,37,36],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-automatic-login","tag-registry","tag-windows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}