Windows 7 login script

Hey.

I am tasked with taking old laptops and updating them. They don’t have internet access so some are windows 7 machines and never been updated before. One or two are XP machines, which I’m upgrading (clean install) of Windows 7.
All the machines have to login automatically as the local user, since any nurse can take one, use it for digital consent forms. After I installed Windows 7 over an XP laptop and added it to the domain (for internet access for windows update)
I can’t get it to not prompt for a user login at the start. I know I can do this by a simple register edit but I don’t know where to start!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Asif Dasl

Sorry I don't understand... me being thick maybe. There is no internet access and they are joined to a domain but you want them to login automatically?

All registry edits should be done via group policy with the machines in their own OU.

If you want to update them have a look at this:

WSUS Offline Update - Update Microsoft Windows and Office without an Internet connection

jibbajabba

No need for group policies

Configure a User Account to Log On Automatically on Windows 7

Asif Dasl

Interesting... I never configured a computer to automatically log on to a domain - works on Windows 8 too. You learn something new every day!

Kai123

Asif Dasl wrote: »

Sorry I don't understand... me being thick maybe. There is no internet access and they are joined to a domain but you want them to login automatically?

All registry edits should be done via group policy with the machines in their own OU.

If you want to update them have a look at this:

WSUS Offline Update - Update Microsoft Windows and Office without an Internet connection

My question is as obscure as the answers from my colleagues!

I will give the Offline WSUS a try if I bump into another Win 7 machine, but for this one I still need to bypass the login prompt. It has to auto-login as local and require no elevation prompt when the nurses are using it.

I am reinstalling Windows 7 anyway, this time I will give the local user a password, add it to the domain and then try the basic options via User Accounts and see how far I get.

Kai123

That looks like the solution Jibbajabba! Will let you know if it works.

jibbajabba

I have one VM which is a DC - that also logins automatically so it certainly works

Sometimes the check box is missing - especially on DCs, here's a solution for this as well (will require registry edits though) :

The EXPTA {blog}: How to Enable Autologon for Windows Server 2008 Member Servers and Windows 7 Member Workstations