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How To: Select Default Vista Log On Account

Do you have several different users on your computer that you aren’t using? maybe you have one for each member of the family and they have all gone on a trip? Or maybe you just like to use different users depending on the location you are at or mood your in? If whatever the reason is heres a simple way to select a default user to be logged onto everytime Windows Vista loads so you save the hastle of having to wait for the User Account splash screen to load and then having to wait while the account you have selected logs in.

1) Open your Start Menu.

2) In the search box type netplwiz and press Enter, when the UAC prompt comes up press Continue.

3) Check the box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer“. This will allow you to select a different user account to logon to automatically at the startup of Vista. If you do not want to logon automatically at startup, then leave this checked and go to step 8.

4) Select a user account by clicking on it to highlight it.

5) Uncheck the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” box.

6) Click Apply.

7) In the pop up window, enter the password for this user account (if it has one) and enter it again to confirm the first password is the same as this one.

8 ) Click OK.

Now every time you start your computer you will be logged onto the account you just highlighted. Have Fun!

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• How To: Change The Log On Screen Saver In Vista
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