My machine set the default login to my account and now xp always opens to
that account. My roommate sees everything I do. Help me to disable it,
please. There is a winlogon section of the registry that is under
...HKLM/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/winlogon which has all
my info in it...

How do I stop it?

Giac

From the control panel go to user accounts. Once there change you account to
add a password. It's pretty straight forward once there.

"Jamie" <00jamiel00 (AT) solsticepoint (DOT) com> wrote

Alfred,
I already have a 16 character password. Error I receive, is connected to
installation of .NET academic pre-requisite which makes a copy of the
password to prevent the system from stopping each time it reboots during the
pre-requisite process. To do this, it uses a dll called ginamsi.dll In
the registry, there is a reference to this called GINADL
(HKLM/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/winlogon). It contains
a reference to my login and (somewhere I presume), my password in an
encrypted form.

When I try to set the user account (from the Control Panel) to use
CTRL-ALT-DEL for login, XP Pro tells me to uninstall the program that put
ginamsi.dll into the registry. The last thing I want to do is call MS
again. I get the feeling they are ready to kill me for all the times I've
called so far.

I'm guessing the password switch did not properly uninstall. I can try
changing the password though which may cause the forced bootup to fail.
Thanks for the reply, it has given me a possible solution.

Giac

"Alfred C Thompson II" <act2 (AT) ACThompson (DOT) net> wrote

Jamie,
Have you tried removing your info from that key?

The Automatic Logon feature is described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;315231

Changing the AutoAdaminLogon key to 0 will disable the AutoAdminLogin
feature.

You don't need to but clearing the DefaultPassword & DeafultUserName fields
(clear do not delete) probably would not hurt!

Of course you also need a password on your account.

Plus you need to enable the 'Users must enter a user name and password to
use this computer' (described at the bottom of the article).

Hope this helps
Jay

"Jamie" <00jamiel00 (AT) solsticepoint (DOT) com> wrote

"JoeShmoe" <joeshmoe (AT) solsticepoint (DOT) com> wrote

to provide a login at each reboot during the install. As a last resort, you
may have to uninstall Visual Studio .NET, check and edit the registry as
needed to remove the .dll and it's contents, set up a login/password with
administrative privileges, then reinstall using that username/password
entered *manually* at each reboot.

I think that would do it for you.

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Peter - [MVP - Academic]