Interrupt Autologin

[breakfast11]

I have a windows 7 x86 PC from a friend which has an autologin - but also has the administrator account enabled. I need to void the autologin to log in as administrator as i get a profile error message with the account associated with that autologin.

I thought you can press the SHIFT key on boot-up to override the autologin, but its not working. Is there a particular way of doing this?

 

Thanks

[andyturpie]

Go to the advanced users tab in control panel, then you should see a tick box which needs to be re-ticked which states "users must use user name and password to log in to this computer" (or something along those lines)

[breakfast11]

Thanks for that - I know of that procedure - I also know it can be worked through regedit but the problem is I get the profile error message as it boots up so I cant get into the OS to do anything. Unless there is another way.

[kmount]

Safe mode command prompt maybe?

[breakfast11]

Thanks - Yes -that got me into the command prompt - as ordinary safe mode still tried to load the corrupted profile account.

 

But now not sure how to find my way in to sort out the corrupted profile. I don't need to enable the administrator account as that was done - its just getting windows to let me use that account to fix things and save the data!

 

A reimage will work - but they will lose a lot of their stuff!

[bald_pig]

Rename the broken user folder, Windows should rebuild a new one from default, then you can just copy the documents over.

 

Worst case scenario, backup from a Linux live cd!

[breakfast11]

Ahh! In safe mode with cmd prompt - pressing Ctrl/Alt/Del got me back to the Task Menu - Switch User, Log off, Run Task Manager, Change Password etc -so eventually managed to get that account logged off and then into Administrator but that logging on actually took me back to the cmd prompt - but then I ran regedit from the command prompt - so got in and changed autologon from 1 to 0.

 

I then rebooted and got the normal windows logon screen with both users - chose administrator and went and did the repair - all good.

 

But rename option was probably a good way to go.I had worked on above before I saw your post. Thanks