Windows NT 4.0 TS Autologon

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Group, I have an old WinNT 4.0 TS that no longer has a
PDC to authenticate to. It has been configured with
Autologon through the registry setting in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Now once it finally boots up,
I cannot make any changes to the registry due to
permission problems. Does anyone have any ideas on how I
can get the Autologon turned off, or disable it. The
permissions seem to be the main problem here as the
machine cannot authenticate.

Thank you,
Dale Young

 

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I seem to remember that holding the Shift key down during the
logon disables automatic logon.

I assume thay you have a local account on the server? Can't you
edit the registry remote and delete the autologon key?

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"Dale Young" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 30 sep
2004 in microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.connectivity:

> Group, I have an old WinNT 4.0 TS that no longer has a
> PDC to authenticate to. It has been configured with
> Autologon through the registry setting in
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Now once it finally boots up,
> I cannot make any changes to the registry due to
> permission problems. Does anyone have any ideas on how I
> can get the Autologon turned off, or disable it. The
> permissions seem to be the main problem here as the
> machine cannot authenticate.
>
> Thank you,
> Dale Young