I've bravely ventured forth from Windows XP as my Uni has finally adopted server 2008.
As anyone with physical access to my desktop can pull that hard drives out / boot from usb anyway, I thought I'd set it to log me in automatically. The internet recommended netplwiz, or the good old "control userpasswords2". So, I ran netplwiz, and unchecked the box marked "users must enter a password to log on". To my astonishment, as well as removing the log in page, it has made my (only) account into a Guest.
I know that best practice is to have an admin account and a user account, and I fully intend to set this up. Indeed I'm sure the reason I'm now a guest is that Microsoft decided administrators shouldn't log in automatically. It would however have been nice to warn me, or even to refuse to remove the log in page, on the basis that there is only one account on the computer, and downgrading the one and only account to a user would really screw over said user.
Google has informed me that this excitingly unexpected security feature has been present since Vista. The only solution appears to be to restore to an earlier time, which sadly I cannot do. So, having expressed my distaste for this surprise, while I sit and glare at the (re)installation screen, does anyone know a better way of solving this?
Grrr.
As anyone with physical access to my desktop can pull that hard drives out / boot from usb anyway, I thought I'd set it to log me in automatically. The internet recommended netplwiz, or the good old "control userpasswords2". So, I ran netplwiz, and unchecked the box marked "users must enter a password to log on". To my astonishment, as well as removing the log in page, it has made my (only) account into a Guest.
I know that best practice is to have an admin account and a user account, and I fully intend to set this up. Indeed I'm sure the reason I'm now a guest is that Microsoft decided administrators shouldn't log in automatically. It would however have been nice to warn me, or even to refuse to remove the log in page, on the basis that there is only one account on the computer, and downgrading the one and only account to a user would really screw over said user.
Google has informed me that this excitingly unexpected security feature has been present since Vista. The only solution appears to be to restore to an earlier time, which sadly I cannot do. So, having expressed my distaste for this surprise, while I sit and glare at the (re)installation screen, does anyone know a better way of solving this?
Grrr.
