{"id":86,"date":"2012-02-07T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:35:41","slug":"how-to-automatically-logon-to-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-automatically-logon-to-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Automatically Logon to Windows 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I find the feature of Windows 8 allowing users to disable the logon screen, as it was in prior versions. When you enter the password on the logon screen, it takes some time to load windows explorer and all startup programs. This can also be quite annoying and time consuming. So what is the solution?<\/p>\n<p>There should be a way to automatically logon to Windows 8, so that when you hit the Power button and return a few minutes later, you won&#8217;t need to enter your password and then wait for all those startup programs to load. let us see how.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Automatically logging into Windows 8:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Press <strong>Win + R<\/strong> to open the <strong>Run<\/strong> command, type <strong>netplwiz<\/strong> and press <strong>Enter<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/command.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/command.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"command\" width=\"426\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/command.png 426w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/command-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2. Under the <strong>Users<\/strong> tab, uncheck the <strong>Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer<\/strong> option,  click <strong>Ok<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/useraccounts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/useraccounts.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"user accounts\" width=\"400\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/useraccounts.png 400w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/useraccounts-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n3. Now enter the password in <strong>Automatically Log On<\/strong> dialog window, click <strong>Ok<\/strong>, restart your Computer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/enterpassword.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/enterpassword.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"enter the password\" width=\"491\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/enterpassword.png 491w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/enterpassword-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t be prompted to enter your password again during login and no lock screen appears either.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I find the feature of Windows 8 allowing users to disable the logon screen, as it was in prior versions. When you enter the password on the logon screen, it takes some time to load windows explorer and all startup programs. This can also be quite annoying and time consuming. So what is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[42,40],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-logon","tag-windows-8-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}