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- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4its not really "preloading", its more like Automatically logging on with TweakUI then locking the workstation with "rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation", but if it works for your purpose then hooray for you.
I just prefer taking out things that I don't want/need at startup, but i also run a better-equiped PC - Vulpes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Here are the instructions....
1. Download Microsoft’s free TweakUI *** tool and install it.
2. Click your Start button, go to your Programs menu, and select Tweak UI from the “Powertoys for Windows XP” folder.
3. In the TweakUI window, double-click the “Logon” item in the left-hand column to expand it.
4. Click on the “Autologon” item underneath the “Logon” section.
5. Check the box that says “Log on automatically at system startup”
6. Click the “Set Password” button and enter in your windows login password
7. Click OK and close Tweak UI.
8. Go to Start > Run and type in “regedit” and press OK. Browse to [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun] and create a new String Value. Name it “Lock Computer on Startup“, and set the value to “rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation“ or dl this http://www.tommychapin.com/lock_on_startup.reg
*** URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - r0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Someone needs to preload his website. LOL.
- speedyrev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dead server
- keng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a copy of it....i had problems getting it.
http://geeknight.blogspot.com/2006/01/brainfuel-boot-up-windows-before-you.html - yodandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"""How is this helpful? You are waiting the same amount of time either way."""
Right, but now, if you wanna hit 'restart', you can go take a crap, wash your hands, grab a soda, and when your back, enter your pass, and you dont have to wait for the programs to load up bc they will already will have been being loaded...
instead of hitting restart, then go take a crap, wash hands, grab soda, enter password, wait for apps to load...
get it? - battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The only way to prevent someone from remotely entering your computer is to turn off Remote anyhitng services. Unfortunately this will even disallow YOU to access your computer remotely - even PC-Anywhere cant help you there.
- cyberwired, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I went through and installed it then read what the reg hack does and thought ah crap
rebooted the computer, watched it login and saw all my programs loading up then the computer locked itself
what a waste, I just removed the registry hack and realised I finally dont have to worry about putting the password in when it starts and I can still lock it if I want to
if you start up in safe mode (I cant be bothered trying) wont it just log straight in and not load startup thus not locking it? - Preppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2didn't read all the comments, but no digg from me
simply hold shift while boot process is happening would stop the run programs from executing as such leaving your machine open...
for home use then maybe but certainly not for office...
just my 2 cents - asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2vonskippy: It's technically the same, but what the advantage of having everything preload before the login screen is for people who power up their machines and go do something before sitting at the computer. When they do finally sit on the computer, they will type in their password and be instantly at the desktop.
- pr0t3st, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Live in the now man...
Real computer geeks NEVER turn off their machines.
:p - DD32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>>>>it doesn't load the desktop before login. what it does is: it just logs you in automatically.
I've been doing this for yonks.
Auto load my User account, make it load my programs,
then Lock the workstation(which is what the idiot is using hte registry for)
Just add a batch file to the statup files startmenu folder containing this:
----
%windir%system32rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation
"c:Program FilesTrilliantrillian.exe"
call c:wwwtt_statsrun.bat
-----
Works wonders..
D - oneoffmanmental, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No digg.
Saving your password in clear text in the registry is not secure! - keng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2don't forget to read the article's first line.
"If you don’t use any Windows XP login security, then you can skip this article. " - WildBil2Me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This actually is another version of a similar method already posted, dugg and seen on the front page.
The other Digg can be found at: http://digg.com/software/auto-lock_your_computer_on_start-up
The original post required no downloading or registry changes. TweakUI is a very cool tool though - even if you're not using it for this it provides some great functionality. - crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4My computer takes a total of 10 sec to get to desktop
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Hey, if you're genuinely worried about security, don't use Windows XP. There was a post here on digg just the other day about how to recover your windows password."
You mean like a Mac, where you just need to boot with the OS-X install DVD and run the "reset password" program to reset the password on any administrator account? Or linux, where you boot off of CD/DVD and mount the filesystem manually to do whatever you want?
Any computer is vulnerable if you have physical access to it. - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Jumbo shrimp
Microsoft works
Windows security - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds interesting. I have a LOT of startup programs (about about 500MB memory used right after boot), so this would be very handy to speeding up my boots. Of course, I'd like to read the article first to make sure there aren't any other side effects... But the site has been *****, it would appear.
Of course, removing many of the startup applications would help a lot, but so much of it is handy. I mean:
AVG antivirus
Microsoft antispyware
Hamachi (P2P VPN software)
NetPerSec
gmail notifier
Novell NetDrive (Maps an FTP site to my X drive)
SimpLite (encrypts MSN Messenger chats)
MSN Messenger
Skype
Yamaha SYXG50 (software MIDI synth driver)
ATI catalyst control center icon (I leave it because I don't think it uses any memory for the icon)
Daemon Tools
Intel ProSet (wireless drivers/management app)
Notebook Hardware Control (manages the CPU speed when switching between AC/DC)
FreeRam XP Pro (taskbar icon tells me how much physical RAM is still free)
EzButton (Controls my notebook's buttons)
I think that does it for startup programs. But then there are the multitude of drivers and other background apps that build up over time... - Magistrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1+Digg This is one solution to this problem that doesn't require installing more startup programs. I like that.
- roosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pity we cant preload the website
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you don't need tweakui for this. start, run, control userpasswords2, enter, uncheck the first box and you're done.
- intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't need this for my laptop. for my old piece of ***** computer (P3, 128 RAM, ~700 MHz) that took a good ten minutes to load the programs on its ~27 GB (!) hard drive, it would be a good idea.
- webhead74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is so friggin ghey. Let's auto-login & then lock the desktop. So what??
If you're running XP and haven't figured out how to optimize it by now, you're lost.... but, here are better tweaks anyways:
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars
http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx
http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_services/
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1590
http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html
etc, etc, etc. - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Repost of the the instructions (since the site is down)....
1. Download Microsoft’s free TweakUI *** tool and install it.
2. Click your Start button, go to your Programs menu, and select Tweak UI from the “Powertoys for Windows XP” folder.
3. In the TweakUI window, double-click the “Logon” item in the left-hand column to expand it.
4. Click on the “Autologon” item underneath the “Logon” section.
5. Check the box that says “Log on automatically at system startup”
6. Click the “Set Password” button and enter in your windows login password
7. Click OK and close Tweak UI.
8. Go to Start > Run and type in “regedit” and press OK. Browse to [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun] and create a new String Value. Name it “Lock Computer on Startup“, and set the value to “rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation“ or download this http://www.tommychapin.com/lock_on_startup.reg
*** URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - Senescence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good idea. Dugg pretty hard.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow...I thought this was a useful article (unless you think no one is going to log in...)
but considering that you have to auto login...I don't thini it's necessary...
Plus it doesn't preload for other accounts on the computer... - fuzzboxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How is this helpful? You are waiting the same amount of time either way.
- schurkenstadt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is crap
it doesn't load the desktop before login. what it does is: it just logs you in automatically. yeah, why use passwords in the first place? - gbm85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Misleading title... this does absolutely *nothing* before login.
- Samstastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And its down. must have been a good one
- Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah and it also saves your password in the registry in PLAIN TEXT. No thanks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Five minutes!? In the eternal word of Weird Al: What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito!?
ryebrye, Windows XP boots up FAR faster than any full-featured Linux distro. Linux is quite well-known for having slow boot times. As for Mac, I'm pretty sure you're right there, those seem to be a bit faster. - jord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Works like a charm,
It logs in, starts all auto run programs and then logs you out with 10 seconds
The main blog is down, but if you know how digg works you'll find mirrors in the comments :)
+ did you know that digg's spell check doesn't like the word "blog"? - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh yeah. you'll need to double click the reg file you just created, if you didn't realize.
- Historian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone who has Windows x64 can forget about Tweak UI: "This Windows PowerToy was designed for the 32-bit version of Windows. Please install the 64-bit version of this PowerToy".
Where is the 64-bit version Microsoft??? - dubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm... but if you have more than one user this will actually take longer to log in because if it loads all the crap in one profile and you login with another it will have to load it agian... then again unless you are the admin or user for whom this is set up for you won't be able to log in because windows is locked.
This is crap. Unless ofcourse you are the soul user of that PC. But even then so what? - battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...How about the security issue of storing your password in the registry unencrypted?
No thank you..."
Its NOT unencrypted, its encrypted but in PLAIN TEXT:
example thing to hide : apple-boner
example possible plain text encryption (there would be noattending hash)
YUiuiuKBVi0jSDaqFcViEW
That is what is meant by PLAIN TEXT (but stil encrpted) - skimboarddan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dupe, no digg
- double0shithead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I friggin hate people that complain about a link like this. "Get a faster machine" "Run Linux" "Geeks don't shut down their machines" Shaddup! This is a useful tip for lots of different people and scenarios. I am a full-fledged geek, but I do have a job. When I get to work, I had to boot up, type in bios pass, wait 30~60 sec and type in win/network pass. This is really great for me! I could have done it on my own, but I just never thought of it. And some geeks do shut down their computers cause some geeks have really crap computers and can't afford good parts. Don't complain, just because you don't need it. It's a useful tip for lots of people.
- antheo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried it on my computer but my computer display a Corporate Security policy before the logon phase and this blocks until i type OK in the dialog. Is there a way to bypass this dialog?
- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd rather my computer boot up in 30 seconds & i click the pretty "Shortcut" icons to open what i need.
- toaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"How about the security issue of storing your password in the registry unencrypted?
No thank you"
TRUE -- this leaves your password in the registry totally unencrypted. - FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First of all.. My PC dosen't take five minutes to boot up, and it goes right to my desktop anyway after I power on. I'm also not one of those users who go totally APE ***** with sys-tray apps. I only have 5 that load up at boot up.
Here are some REAL TIPS in getting your system to boot faster:
- Upgrade your PC. Get a faster Mobo, CPU, RAM, and hard drive
- Wipe your hard drive clean, and install windows fresh
- Install a slipstreamed verison of XP, so it all SP2 and drivers already present.
- Buy a solid state hard drive (all RAM no disc drives)
- ***** Windows, and install ubuntu :) - hcetrepus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My computer takes a total of 10 sec to get to desktop
omg gratz, you win win - detrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what if someone happens to hop on my computer after it logs in automatically but before it locks and stops "undll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation" from executing?
- Vagari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has anyone tried DD32's method? Sounds more secure though it's a little harder than using TweakUi and double-clicking a .reg file. ;)
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Perfect for my corporate setup - my company applies a billion policies before you get your desktop after you login - sometimes it takes 3-5 minutes. This solves the problem, thanks!"
Realize in most corporate environment this will get you fired; having your password in cleartext in the registry is a huge security problem, nonetheless anybody in your office can use your machine to steal corporate documets, social security numbers, whatever might be on your machine.
Ahh Windows users, realize something's there for your protection, find a way to circumvent it anyways. - JMJimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just a question... hasn't anyone heard of suspend to ram?
I simply hit suspend to ram when I leave my computer, shuts down the fans, hard drive, etc etc just leaves power to the ram. I come back hit the space bar and its back up and running... instantly. The slowest part is waiting for my stupid CRT monitor to warm up.... my kindom for a Q320 (or an SED) - DD32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>> %windir%system32rundll32.exe
Theres supposed to be slashes in there, but they got removed or something, any geek will know where to put 'em.
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