Registry - Autoadminlogon

Panic set in. The shipping manifest for the morning rush needed to be processed by 5:00 AM. If it wasn't, the trucks wouldn't leave, and the company would lose millions.

Elias closed the Registry Editor. He didn't change a thing. He locked the server room door behind him and walked away. registry autoadminlogon

The script executed. The database repaired itself. The printers spooled up in the other room. Panic set in

He clicked on the Winlogon folder. The right pane populated with a list of values. He scanned down the list until he saw it, the key that made his blood run cold: Elias closed the Registry Editor

To limit auto logon to N reboots:

Elias knew he had to boot into Safe Mode to see what the script had broken. He walked over to the dusty Dell tower that served as the primary shipping controller. He plugged in a keyboard and hit F8 just as the BIOS screen flashed.

Elias reached for the keyboard to type in the local admin password, but before his fingers touched the keys, the screen flickered. The mouse cursor moved on its own. It highlighted the Administrator account.