How to automatic Log in Windows with Registry

You have to fill your password every time to gain access to Windows, yes it's a good idea for security, but if you don't share your computer with others people or you work with server that set schedule to reboot itself, asking password for access Windows may annoy you, if you need to force it to auto log on to Windows without asking password, this article will be answer for you.

You can force your Windows to automatic log in by configure your registry, this is not difficult just do following this article. First open your registry window by type "regedit" in your run box(Start Memu-> Run...), after it open, browse to path \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, then watch your right pane you will see many key/value pairs, find these 3 keys, if it doesn't exist create it by right click on right pane choose New-> String Value and name it as 3 keys/values below. NOTE these 3 keys are String type.

KeyName: AutoAdminLogon,Value: 1

KeyName: DefaultUserName, Value: <your username>

KeyName: DefaultPassword, Value: <your password>

After set these 3 keys/values restart your computer and see the result, if it does not work open your registry window and check again you may fill an incorrect value, if you don't want to use this tip i recommend to delete DefaultPassword key for your security.

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How to show hidden devices on Windows-DeviceManager

Look at pictures above you will see the different, these pictures I focus on device "Disk drives", on left side, Disk drives in Device Manager show only the active devices that attaching to my computer and the right picture show all devices including hidden devices that use to be used on my computer, I've use this computer about 5 years ago so you will see many disk drive on my device manager.

This tip doesn't work only on disk drive but works on all device, for me when i show all hidden devices it show all my display adapters, modems and network adapters that use to attach on this computer(don't show in picture above).

To enable this tip, you have to set Environment Variable. Begin by open System Properties (right click on My Computer), go to Advances tab and click on Environment Variables , in Show User Variables click New and set Variable name to "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1", click OK to confirm your change, then try to open your device manager, for now you may not see any change until you select View->Show hidden devices, if you tick on View->Show hidden devices before set Environment variable, it will not show all hidden devices, try it to prove what i say is true, with this easy steps you can see all devices that use to be used on your machine.

If you don't want to permanent enable it, you can set "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1" in command line and call device manager by type compmgmt.msc, it will temporarily enable this tip, on your next boot it will return to default.

Hope you may get some benefit, more or less!

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How to change Windows Explorer default folder

Normally when you open Windows Explorer via StartMenu->All Programs->Accessories->Windows Explorer, it always open Windows Explorer to default folder, My Documents, this default folder can be changed to whatever you want by adding parameters.

In picture you will see that in Target: field, it is not add any parameters(option). To open this property window right click on Windows Explorer on StartMenu->All Programs->Accessories->Windows Explorer, then you can change default opened folder to any folder, other than this you can limit user view to some folder, for example, you can limit user who open your edited Windows Explorer shortcut to path d:\users and don't show its parent path, to do all of this you have to know what each parameter meant, these parameters can be used together.

OPTION
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/n
Opens a new single-pane window for the default
selection. This is usually the root of the drive that
Windows is installed on. If the window is already
open, a duplicate opens.

/e
Opens Windows Explorer in its default view.

/root,<object>
Opens a window view of the specified object.

/select,<object>
Opens a window view with the specified folder, file, or program selected.

EXAMPLES
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Example 1: Explorer /select,C:\TestDir\TestProg.exe
Opens a window view with TestProg selected.

Example 2: Explorer /e,/root,C:\TestDir\TestProg.exe
Opens Explorer with drive C expanded and TestProg selected.

Example 3: Explorer /root,\\TestSvr\TestShare
Opens a window view of the specified share.

Example 4: Explorer /root,\\TestSvr\TestShare,select,TestProg.exe
Opens a window view of the specified share with TestProg selected.

Hope you understand all of these examples, change to whatever that match to you and enjoy this tip.

reference : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314853

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How to install Windows Recovery Console locally on server

If your Windows can not start with some reasons, Sure! no one want to face this problem but if it occurs, luckily, you still have Microsoft Windows Recovery Console. Most of administrators or users that ever use Windows Recovery Console will use by insert floppy disk that contains windows recovery console or access it by insert CD/DVD and boot to access recovery console, but i think it will good to install windows recovery console permanent to make sure you can fix problem anytime and reduce risk on failure disk.

To do this you may need CD/DVD to install windows recovery console locally on your server. Ok let try to do it, first open command line, type "cmd" on Run box, then access to your optical drive, my optical is e:\, go to i386 folder on you optical and run command "winnt32 /cmdcons", it will look like this

e:\i386>winnt32 /cmdcons

Installer window will pop-up do following its instruction and finish, after next boot it will has an option for you to access normal windows or Windows Recovery Console as picture on top, below picture is an first page of Windows Recovery Console.

This article is just how to install Windows Recovery Console locally on the server, for how to use this recovery mode is out of this topic and will try to update new article on how to use it, hope you see it useful.

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