06.12.08

Parallels for mac - Stop auto login as administrator on XP

Posted in Home at 10:58 am by JohnB

For a long time now I’ve been mildly annoyed by the fact that every time I start up my virtualised XP environment under Parallels on the Mac, it tries to log me is as Administrator. I don’t want Administrator, I want my own account see!

Today I finally got sick of the error dialogue and prompt so did some diggin around. I initially thought that this was being set up and passed through by Parallels but a search there yielded nothing at all, then I found this little snippet about doing stuff in the Windows environment itself:

  • Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ WindowsNT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon

  • Delete the DefaultPassword entry.
  • Double-click AutoAdminLogon, type 0 in the Value Data box, and then click OK.

BINGO! I now get a nice login prompt with no auto-nonsense.

Thought I’d share

- J.

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