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Well, I don't why this is marked as answered. I don't see an answer for breaking OUT of the autologon sequence. Lots of information about how to make it happen, which doesn't seem to be the original poster's question. It is also my question. Apparently the folks in the field that use this feateure (or used to use this feature) are SOL. Are there any MVPs that know how to break the autologon cycle or whcih key Windows 7 now uses to stop the autlogon? Much appreciated.
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I am also looking for a solution to this. I have read post after post after post asking this same question with no satisfactory resolution. As an administrator, it is unbelievable how lazy Microsoft has gotten in responding to IT professionals - hey Microsoft, wake up! Well, I don't why this is marked as answered. I don't see an answer for breaking OUT of the autologon sequence. Lots of information about how to make it happen, which doesn't seem to be the original poster's question. It is also my question.
Apparently the folks in the field that use this feateure (or used to use this feature) are SOL. Are there any MVPs that know how to break the autologon cycle or whcih key Windows 7 now uses to stop the autlogon?
Much appreciated. I am also looking for a solution to this.
I have read post after post after post asking this same question with no satisfactory resolution. As an administrator, it is unbelievable how lazy Microsoft has gotten in responding to IT professionals - hey Microsoft, wake up! Isn't that annoying as all get out?
Auto-login is already enabled, and the only answers we are getting is how to enable auto-login or mash the shift keys and cross our fingers. I found a work around to breaking the auto-login, but it definitely isn't elegant. We too have Public-PCs in which a local GPO (tied to a local user account) locks down the PC. THere are only local accounts on the PC (admin (member of local administrators group) & public user (member of local user group)) We only have a dozen public PCs. With so few public PCs, we do not have them authenticate through our AD nor have the PC in our AD on our domain. This makes it simpler to manage.
We created a single image after creating a Local GPO and sysprep since we do not have to worry about unique SIDS or PC names. We have a volume lic.
We use for Win7 Pro. The public User account doesn't even have a password. The local admin account of course does. Because they just have internet access only, it is the ONLY app they can run (controlled by GPO 'Run only specified Windows applications'),. Desktop has a single icon (IE) and cannot be deleted (Placed in 'Users Public Public Desktop'), start menu is BLANK, run command is disabled, registry editing is disabled, command line is disabled, right-click and context menus are disabled, all drives are hidden and restricted, and finally, the account uses a mandatory profile. Every reboot self-heals the profile.
There is no log-off or switch user button. You have 3 functions in which you can do to this PC; you can launch IE, restart the PC, and shut down the PC. Also, Auto-login is ENABLED. Here's the only way I found it to reliably get to a login screen: START IN SAFE MODE.
On boot-up, hit F8. It will auto-login to the Public Account. LOCAL Group policy will NOT apply.
You have access to LOGOFF. You now can login to the local Admin account Now in safe-mode, an unscrupulous user may do some damage in the public account, but regedit and policy editor are restricted from making changes to the public account even in safe mode. You have to logoff and login as an administrator to make changes. Safe-mode in the admin account allows me to make registry and policy edit changes. I can regedit and disable the 'AutoAdminLogon' in the registry if I have to, reboot, and finish my work in normal mode, and regedit back when I'm done, or just do what changes I can in safe-mode, then reboot.
Hope it helps. Didn't try the fix since we're still on XP for public computers and staff doesn't utilize Auto Logon and I expect the fix will be incorporated into monthly updates by the time we need it for public computers. But anyway; I do most of my work remotely, so if I need to log in to one of my public computers, I let RDP force a remote logoff, then log in as and administrator.
On the hard drive of each public computer I keep two registry files, the text of which are; Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Winlogon 'AutoAdminLogon'='0' and Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Winlogon 'DefaultUserName'='username' 'DefaultPassword'='password' 'DefaultDomainName'='DOMAIN' 'AutoAdminLogon'='1' This works for me and might be an option for you. The easiest way to create the two files is to export the key and edit out what you don't need, then make only minor changes to avoid typos. Good luck with it. It seems to me that the sysinternals autologon tool only works during boot-up, isn't that correct? I want it to work in case a library patron decides to log off also, so I am using the registry edit. To answer the original question about how to interrupt (override) the autologon on a Windows 7 64-bit PC, the shift key actually does work, but not well. If I hold down the shift key during logoff and wait until the precise moment when the cursor disappears, and it looks ready to log back in, and then release the shift key for barely a moment, I can get it to stop the login.
Sometimes this takes a dozen attempts, though. So I will try the hotfix next. Thanks RickSmith. There was an issue that, previously stopped our Windows 7 Migration Team, from imaging several important machines, the Kiosk Series.
In Windows XP, to gain Admin privileges, you held down the key and Logged Off, Restarted or Switched Users. With new equipment replacing the antiquated, The Migration Team, is totally unaware, that certain things that “Have To Be” done a certain way. In Windows 7, either the manufacturers of USB keyboards or Microsoft, overlooked the need for certain key code signals, in our case, to regain Admin privileges on the Kiosk, so using USB keyboards will not work. Your fix, is easier than you think, switch the keyboard back to a PS/2 keyboard and it will work. Microsoft HAS provided a patch, but, since I do not know how it would affect our Enterprise wide software packages, I did not apply it. I did test a USB-2-PS/2 adapter using a USB Keyboard, but failed too, even after a full reboot. Obviously, something was lost in the translation of the two connector types?
It took a lot of convincing to get upper management to believe, watch and then test on their own, in my presence, that the contractor working for them, actually resolved what their test teams could not. Respectfully, Toby White-Beebe.
Murder, intrigue in rural town will be focus of Ira Glass, Sarah Koenig-produced series 'It's not a case,' he earlier this week. 'In season two, we tried to get away from true crime. We felt we already did that.
Season two was about Bowe Bergdahl, a really different kind of story. We were looking at something that had news-and-issues stakes to it, but with the same narrative drive and characters to it. Season three takes on something huge and different with characters and narrative but very different from the first two seasons.' Season one of the popular podcast followed the real-life story of Adnan Syed, a man who may have been wrongfully convicted in 1999 of killing his then ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. The case against him was largely based on the testimony of one witness, Syed's friend Jay, who claimed that he helped Syed bury Lee's body. The podcast was an overwhelming success.
'I would like to say that we knew it was going to be popular, but we didn't,' Glass said. 'We really just saw it as a little side project. We had no idea that 14 million people would download every episode. No podcast had ever done that. No podcast had ever had a parody of it on Saturday Night Live. It wasn't a mainstream product like that.
That was a turning point in 2014 for podcasts.' Season two chronicled the life of ex-Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl, and what exactly happened between the time he went missing and he was released from their hold in May 2014.
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As a serialized offshoot of This American Life, Glass explained, he and his team really wanted to focus Serial on narrative, regardless of the subject. 'When we started we were doing journalism about very personal stories,' he said of This American Life's 1995 inception. 'We were taking the tools of journalism and applying them to stories that were so small that journalists wouldn’t touch them. And then I and the staff started after September 11th getting very interested in the news as did the rest of the country. We started to apply those stories to stories in the news.' These days, he added, interest in the news has only grown – thanks in large part to the current administration, which has created 'the most intense news-consuming period any of us can remember' – though there is no longer just one narrative for viewers and readers to follow. And that, he points out, is worrisome.
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'There are new challenges that fact-based journalists face, but it doesn't have to do with the president,' Glass said of what kinds of difficulties journalists face today. 'Over the last 20 years, an entire second media has grown up that runs an alternate narrative to the mainstream media.
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Every event goes through two prisms now in a way that it never did before. That's the hardest thing for those of us in the fact-based media. And that's enormously difficult to know how to deal with as someone in the mainstream media because the people who believe otherwise aren't consuming our product.'