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VK

Flightless Bird
Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start up.
Thanks
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
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> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start up.
> Thanks
>

So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
 
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Zaphod Beeblebrox

Flightless Bird
"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
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> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each
> start up. Thanks
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+7+auto+login

--
Zaphod

"The best Bang since the Big One" - Eccentrica Gallumbits
 
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Sam E

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start up.
>> Thanks
>>
>
>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?

An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.
 
Z

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Flightless Bird
"Sam E" <no.email@all.invalid> wrote in message
news:l1thp5tt22m4rkuphunm6a99d0obe6hl5l@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon"
> <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each
>>> start up.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>
> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.

And even more than that, a system configured for auto login allows
parallelization of tasks. Start system, do other things while system
starting and logging in, return to system when tasks done, use system.
If auto login isn't configured, you have to wait for system to reach
login screen, log in, wait for system to finish startup before you can
use it. Personally, I don't use it for my workstations, but I can see
the benefits. Why Gordon is so against it, and for that matter why he
even cares, is beyond me.

--
Zaphod

Arthur Dent, speaking to Trillian about Zaphod:
"So, two heads is what does it for a girl?"
"...Anything else he's got two of?"
 
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Spanky de Monkey, ESQ

Flightless Bird
"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:hnamd3$4rj$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
> news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>> up. Thanks
>>
>
> So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?

That isn't the point you RETARD. Err, Umm <sigh>.
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
"Sam E" <no.email@all.invalid> wrote in message
news:l1thp5tt22m4rkuphunm6a99d0obe6hl5l@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>> up.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>
> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.

Once a day. Jeeeze.....
If you start up your computer LOTS of times a day a) it uses lots more
electricity than if you just keep it running and b) places excessive wear on
parts like the disk heads...
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hnavqg$vj3$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Sam E" <no.email@all.invalid> wrote in message
> news:l1thp5tt22m4rkuphunm6a99d0obe6hl5l@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>>>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>>> up.
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>>
>> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
>> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.
>
> And even more than that, a system configured for auto login allows
> parallelization of tasks. Start system, do other things while system
> starting and logging in, return to system when tasks done, use system. If
> auto login isn't configured, you have to wait for system to reach login
> screen, log in, wait for system to finish startup before you can use it.
> Personally, I don't use it for my workstations, but I can see the
> benefits. Why Gordon is so against it, and for that matter why he even
> cares, is beyond me.
>

Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX, AIX, Linux
etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".
I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many Windows
users to computer security...
 
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Alias

Flightless Bird
Gordon wrote:

>
> Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
> It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX, AIX,
> Linux etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".

Ubuntu does. I booted it up today, went for some coffee, and when I got
back, the desktop was there waiting and ready to use.

> I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many
> Windows users to computer security...

I guess it would be useful if you're afraid that someone will have
physical access to your computer. Course, with Linux, changing a log on
password is very easy if you have physical access. So, how does logging
on automatically create a security risk?

--
Alias
 
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Gordon

Flightless Bird
"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
news:hnb6se$54f$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Gordon wrote:
>
>>
>> Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
>> It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX, AIX,
>> Linux etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".
>
> Ubuntu does. I booted it up today, went for some coffee, and when I got
> back, the desktop was there waiting and ready to use.

Yes but when you choose that option on install it says "NOT RECOMMENDED" in
big red letters!



>> I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many
>> Windows users to computer security...
>
> I guess it would be useful if you're afraid that someone will have
> physical access to your computer. Course, with Linux, changing a log on
> password is very easy if you have physical access. So, how does logging on
> automatically create a security risk?
>

Granted, it's also relatively easy on Windows as well, but at least it
deters the casual "ooh let's see what we can find on this machine" type of
intrusion...
And it gets the Users thinking security as well other than just ignoring
it..
 
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Alias

Flightless Bird
Gordon wrote:
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
> news:hnb6se$54f$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
>>> It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX,
>>> AIX, Linux etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".
>>
>> Ubuntu does. I booted it up today, went for some coffee, and when I
>> got back, the desktop was there waiting and ready to use.
>
> Yes but when you choose that option on install it says "NOT RECOMMENDED"
> in big red letters!

For people who work/live with people they don't trust?

>
>
>
>>> I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many
>>> Windows users to computer security...
>>
>> I guess it would be useful if you're afraid that someone will have
>> physical access to your computer. Course, with Linux, changing a log
>> on password is very easy if you have physical access. So, how does
>> logging on automatically create a security risk?
>>
>
> Granted, it's also relatively easy on Windows as well, but at least it
> deters the casual "ooh let's see what we can find on this machine" type
> of intrusion...
> And it gets the Users thinking security as well other than just ignoring
> it..

Everyone in my office can take a gander at anything I have on my
computers and they often do.

--
Alias
 
P

Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
Click Start, click Run, and type control userpasswords2 and remove the
checkmark from the appropriate box

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start up. Thanks
>
 
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Alex Clayton

Flightless Bird
"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:hnb7fj$lpg$1@news.eternal-september.org...

> Yes but when you choose that option on install it says "NOT RECOMMENDED"
> in big red letters!
>

It also says that when you decide not to let Windows updates auto download.
I take all the updates, but always do so manually. Every time they put out
new ones I wait a few days to see if they screwed something up first, rather
than be one of the many who get the update automatically, then find out
something no longer works, and have to wait for MS to fix, what they screwed
up.


--
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know
'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads
weren't paved.
Will Rogers
 
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VK

Flightless Bird
"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hnb81l$bav$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> Click Start, click Run, and type control userpasswords2 and remove
> the checkmark from the appropriate box
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
> news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>> up. Thanks
......................
easypeasy...tvm :)
 
P

Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
yvw :)

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Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message news:hnbfru$rjb$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>
> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hnb81l$bav$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Click Start, click Run, and type control userpasswords2 and remove
>> the checkmark from the appropriate box
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>>
>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>>
>> "VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>> up. Thanks
> .....................
> easypeasy...tvm :)
>
>
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"Spanky de Monkey, ESQ" <spanky@deMonkey.gov> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:hnamd3$4rj$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>> up. Thanks
>>>
>>
>> So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>
> That isn't the point you RETARD. Err, Umm <sigh>.
>
>
>
You just went in the same bin as Alias and Frank. Don't bother to reply, I
won't see it.
Err, Umm <sigh>
Dave
 
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Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:47:42 -0600, Sam E wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start up.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>
> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.

Heck, I'm such a lousy typist that it's hundreds of times *per login* :)

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:33:40 -0000, Gordon wrote:

> "Sam E" <no.email@all.invalid> wrote in message
> news:l1thp5tt22m4rkuphunm6a99d0obe6hl5l@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:18 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"VK" <notospam@co.uk> wrote in message
>>>news:hnajt9$5g3$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>> Please remind me how to avoid the need to input password at each start
>>>> up.
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>So what can you do with FIVE SECONDS?
>>
>> An excessively common error. It's NOT five seconds, but five seconds
>> multiplied by the HUNDREDS on times you do this.
>
> Once a day. Jeeeze.....
> If you start up your computer LOTS of times a day a) it uses lots more
> electricity than if you just keep it running and b) places excessive wear on
> parts like the disk heads...

You are losing credibility with those claims...

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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John Morrison

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:47 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
>news:hnb6se$54f$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Because actually it's a SECURITY thing. Apart from anything else...
>>> It's no coincidence that the most secure Operating systems, UNIX, AIX,
>>> Linux etc do NOT allow "passwordless logins".
>>
>> Ubuntu does. I booted it up today, went for some coffee, and when I got
>> back, the desktop was there waiting and ready to use.
>
>Yes but when you choose that option on install it says "NOT RECOMMENDED" in
>big red letters!
>
>>> I really do despair sometimes of the complete indifference of many
>>> Windows users to computer security...
>>
>> I guess it would be useful if you're afraid that someone will have
>> physical access to your computer. Course, with Linux, changing a log on
>> password is very easy if you have physical access. So, how does logging on
>> automatically create a security risk?
>
>Granted, it's also relatively easy on Windows as well, but at least it
>deters the casual "ooh let's see what we can find on this machine" type of
>intrusion...
>And it gets the Users thinking security as well other than just ignoring
>it..

I'd go along with that Gordon.

I always login with a username & secure password to try and prevent
unauthorised access to my computer. When I'm going to bed or about to
leave home, visiting or shopping etc., I always turn my computer off.

Though I've enabled the hidden "Administrator" account for which I use a
different username & secure password. The "Administrator" account has
been renamed to not make itself obvious and is only used when I'm not
able to perform administrative tasks with my normal login.
--

John
 
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