Archive for the 'Windows XP' Category

Windows XP Auto Login – Registry Entry

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

The following Registry Entry will allow windows to login a particular account upon booting up. The labels are self explanatory. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] “DefaultUserName”=”Administrator” “defaultpassword”=”password” “autoadminlogon”=”1″ DefaultUserName is the username of the account. Above we used Administrator defaultpassword is the password that windows will use. autoadminlogon must be set to “1″ [...]

Windows Logon Message – Registry Entries

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Here we are going to modify the Registry to show us a caption when turning on. This will happen at the login screen, before logging in I believe…..but I may be wrong. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] “LegalNoticeCaption”=”Title” “LegalNoticeText”=”Message.” Save this entire chunk of text to notepad, and save it as a .reg [...]

Enable / Disable Windows Task Manager

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

If you are trying to do anything from control / monitor a child to repairing from a virus attack to messing with a friend, you always need to know how to enale / disable your Windows XP Task Manager. Create a new file called enable_taskmanager.reg on your desktop. Edit this file with Notepad or a [...]