Windows Hacks

We all faced this. That is, even though we are using the systems for ourself and no one else is using the system but the every time you will get password prompts. This can be bypassed editing the registry entries.
 Windows can be configured such away it automatically log in a user on starting.  For doing this just follow the steps mentioned below.

• Login to the user account with administrator rights.
• Go to registry editor. For this, Click on Start-->Run  and type 'regedit' and OK.
• Navigate to the left side of the tool to the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\Winlogon' key.
•  Now we need to  change some values on the right side for activating the automatic log-in. For this, double click the entry and enter the new configuration in the 'Edit string' dialog box under 'Value'. Subsequently, confirm this action with 'OK'. If one of the values described in the following do not exist, create it. Use the command 'Edit->New->String' for this and name it 'AutoAdminLogon'.
• Double click the 'AutoAdminLogon' and change the value to '1' which basically turns on the automatic login. IF you wish to turn off this feature replace '1' with '0'
•  Enter the name you wish to log in to, under 'DefaultUserName'. If it is not there create that. Enter your password under 'Defaultpassword', If this is not available create it.

Note: Activating automatic login will face security risk if some else is using your computer. As your user name and password are visible in registry this is not recommended if you are using public systems.