microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

"Chris Clarke-Williams" wrote:

> Our company insurers have recently issued an edict that all computers not
> connected to an UPS must be turned off at night.

This is IMHO a cause of concern from civil-liberties aspects. Governments
are increasingly making insurance compulsory on all manner of risks, and this
places insurers in the shoes of 'Al Capone' - they are effectively judge jury
and executioner, making-up their own laws as they go. Mostly, idiotic laws
too, because they have zero understanding of such things. It's time that
their powers to do this were curbed.

You can make domain computers autologon using the standard 'control
userpasswords2' method. It requires the removal of a registry block which is
put in place when the computer joins the domain:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon, Type String, Value '1'

Remember to select the domain useraccount, not a local one.