What user by default Windows. Configuration of Standard User Accounts

In some situations, there is a need to enable automatic login that stops working in cases where there is more than 1 in the user system or it has a password.

Introduction

The user selection screen in Windows 7 may be displayed in several cases:

• When logging into the system, if the automatic input is not configured
• When blocking a system or user change
• When exiting sleep mode or hibernation, or when you leave the screensaver

About automatic login

Automatic input to the system without entering the password is convenient if you are the only user of the computer, or use a specific account much more often than the rest. Customizing automatic login, it is necessary to understand that any person who has incorporing the computer will freely log in to the system and will access all files and parameters of the account used. Setting the automatic login varies depending on whether the computer is attached to the domain.

The necessary conditions

If there is only one active password account in the system, it automatically performs input, so no additional setting is required. If there are multiple accounts, the automatic login requires configuration, even if none of them has a password. Additional "service" accounts can be added to the system when installing various software.

To configure automatic login, administrator rights are required. The configuration process is practically no different from setting up in Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Computers not included in the domain

For computers that are not included in the domain (for example, home), the automatic login setting can be performed in the graphical interface of the operating system.

• Press the key combination Win + R..
• netPlwiz (not working in Windows XP) or control UserPasswords2.
• Click Enter. The User Account Settings window opens.

Note. If the account does not have a password, leave the field Password empty.

Setting the automatic login to the system is completed.

Automatic login can also be configured in the system registry. All the necessary parameters are listed in the table in the next section of the article.

Computers included in the domain

For computers included in the domain, you must specify the default domain name in which the automatic input will be performed. There is no such possibility in the graphical interface of the operating system, so the automatic login setting is performed in the system registry.

• Press the key combination Win + R.
  
• In the window that opens, enter: regedit. and press Enter. The registry editor opens.
• Go to section: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT Currentversion WinLogon
• Configure the registry settings according to the table. If the parameter is absent, it must be created.

Automatic login parameters

Note. The first three parameters in the table can be used to configure the automatic login on computers that are not included in the domain.

Select user with automatic entrance

If you enable automatic input, but it became necessary to log in under another account, press and hold the key Shift.when running Windows. Or click Exit System / Change User In the completion menu and hold the key Shift..

A string parameter may also affect the change of users with an automatic login (REG_SZ) Forceautologon. In the Registry section: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ Windows NT \\ CurrentVersion \\ WinLogon.

The parameter can take values 1 (included) and 0 (switched off). Its purpose is to ensure the permanent presence of the user in the system, if the automatic input is configured and the computer is turned on. In fact, the inclusion of this parameter leads to the fact that the user cannot exit the system - after the session is complete, the input is immediately performed automatically. This behavior is provided for computers working in a kiosk mode in a public place (for example, library). You can bypass it, only holding the key Shift. Upon completion of the session.

Password request when leaving sleeping mode or hibernation

When, after the inactivity period, the computer goes to sleep or hibernation, Windows 7 requests a password when renewing work, which provides additional data protection. This query can be disabled.

Open Power Supply In the control panel, in the upper left corner, click Password request when waking

At the bottom of the power supply settings window, first click Change the parameters inaccessible at the momentAnd then configure the password request.

Pay attention to the Account Control Shield (UAC) next to reference. To change these parameters, administrator rights are required. However, the request for confirmation will appear only if you are working with the rights of a regular user. Administrator rights will be improved without a request.

Password request when leaving the screensaver

The screen saver can be used as one of the data protection tools from unauthorized access if the password request is configured when the screensaver is output. In Windows 7, as in the previous NT systems, this setting is called. After the inactivity period, the screensaver turns on, and the password is requested from it if your account is protected by it.

Right-click on the desktop and select from the menu item Personalization. The control panel window opens. In the lower right corner of the window, click Screensaver. The OSD SCREAD Parameters window opens. Uncheck the checkbox Start from the login screenIf you do not want to enter a password when leaving the screensaver.

The first step to configure computers with shared access for Blue Yonder Airlines must be configured on each of these computers user accounts. Since the company has a network of computers running Windows Server ® 2008 R2 and employee user accounts are listed in Active Directory ®, you do not need to configure user accounts on computers shared by employees. You just need to avoid adding user accounts to a local administrators group. Domain users are members of the default standard user group. This configuration isolates users so that they will not be able to change system files or parameters, as well as can not access files or parameters of other users.

You must create user accounts for computers using the guest entry. The best way to identify these role-based accounts. For example, the school can identify three roles - students, teachers and employees - and then configure each common account as necessary. Libraries can be configured with the roles of the head and staff. Only one name for Byaguest is required. Instead of creating an account in Active Directory, you need to create an account on each computer and configure computers on the automatic login using the Boyaguest account.

Creating a local user account.

1. On a public computer, click the Start button, enter "Local Users" and click the "Change Local Users and Group" button. If Windows 7 is prompted to enter the administrator password or confirm the action, enter the password or confirm that you want to continue.

2. Click the Users folder, click the action and select "New User".

3. In the new user dialog box (shown in Fig.), Enter the appropriate information and then click the "Create" button.

Creating a new User Account in Windows 7

4. If you want to create more than one user account, repeat the previous steps for each user account, and then click the Close button.

Note. When you create accounts for individual users, do not check the box on the "User cannot change the password" parameter. However, when creating common, accounts based on user roles, check this check box to disable users to change the password and prohibit other users access to the computer with shared access. Also, do not check if you want to provide continuous access to the shared account.

In addition to creating accounting records of standard users, when you first enter the user, you can configure them into your computer. Windows 7 stores files and user parameters in user profiles that are separated from system parameters. By default, Windows 7 stores these user profiles in C: \\ users, creating one nested folder for each user-in-computer. When you first log in to the computer, Windows 7 creates a user profile folder by copying the default user profile folder from C: \\ Users \\ Default.

Configuring user profiles by default is an easy way to configure new user accounts. However, they are not suitable for all parameters. The default user profiles are excellent and easy to configure preferences that you want to allow you to change users. But they are not suitable for the parameters you want to control. To do this, use Group Policy Settings.

To create a default user profile

1. Log in to the Windows 7 computer as a member of the local administrator group. Do not use the domain account.

Note. To create a default user profile, use an optional computer with a clean installation of Windows 7. Do not use the computer that is required for business (that is, a production computer). The process that describes these steps deletes all domain accounts from the computer, including the user profile folders. After creating a user profile by default, it can be copied from C: \\ Users \\ Default to a network folder or removable media.

2. Configure the settings you want to enable in the user profile. For example, you can configure the settings for the Start menu, Windows Explorer and so on.

3. Create a Unattend.xml file that sets the CopyProfile parameter to True. CopyProfile The parameter calls SYSPREP to copy the user profile folder that logged in to the default user profile. You can use Windows System Image Manager, which is part of the Windows automatic installation package (Windows AIK) to create a UNATTEND.xml file.

4. In the command prompt, enter the following command and press Enter:

sysprep / Oobe / Reboot / Generalize / Unattend: Unattend.xml

(Sysprep.exe Located in: C: \\ Windows \\ System32 \\ Sysprep)

5. Complete the ready-made solution and then log in to your computer with a local administrator privilege.

6. Click the Start button, enter the user's profile and then click the "Setting the Advanced User Profile Properties" button.

7. In the user profiles dialog box (shown in Fig.) Click the default profile and click the Copy button.

Copying the default user profile using the User Profiles dialog box

8. In the "Copy in" dialog box, follow these steps:

a. In the "Copy Profile in" text box, enter the path to the place where you want to save the default user profile.

b. In the group "Allow to use" click the "Edit" button, enter the data and click OK.

9. Click OK to copy the default user profile.

Note. There are other methods for creating user profiles by default. For example, you can click the "Copy" button in the User Profiles dialog box to copy the user profile folder to the default user profile. However, the steps that are described in this section are the steps that Microsoft recommends to configure this profile. These steps clears the source user profile so that it supports several users.

Users of computers and devices that are replaced are often found with the term "default", which is used when describing software settings. They have a question: what does the default mean?

It would seem that the understandable term that does not require "translation" into Russian, yet under the clue, it turns out to be incomprehensible.

Let's try to figure it out. Is it possible to use the software mode "by default"?

Why do you need default settings

Many modern applied programs used on personal computers are multifunctional, have many features, not all of which are used in practice by all PC users.

You can endlessly study the MS Office applications, and each time new and new text editing and text processing (Microsoft Excel), the Microsoft Power Point will be opened (Microsoft POWER), etc. The same can be said about any other programs: browsers, skype, etc ..

The above indicates that it is very redundant by its functions performed. This redundancy is needed in order to provide PC users a variety of information processing capabilities. For programmers who create this redundant software software, this means that it is necessary in advance at the program writing stage to provide many data processing options. And all these options need to be embedded in application programs, as well as provide convenient opportunities for their use.

The software variability is convenient because the user is given many possibilities, often not used. The reverse side of this medal is that it is necessary to make a variety of settings before using the software. Indeed, if the software allows a lot of things, and the user needs to use only part of the capabilities provided, then you need to somehow specify the program that, in fact, is interested in the user in this particular case.

In order to simplify the software configuration, the programmers use the default mode.

What does it mean by default

Let's see the logic of programmers when they create (or how they themselves say, write) the program. Programmers proceed from the fact that in each case case of the program work 2 of the following options are possible:

1. the program in this particular case can only perform one action,
2. and the program can perform more than one action.

Other options, as a rule, does not happen. Where the action is the only programmer programmer. But there, where actions are several, the programmer must write a program in such a way that it sets questions the user about how to do at this particular point, or the program itself automatically chose one of the possible options.

In the second case, they say that the programmer asked for a program to work in default mode, i.e. The programmer himself, without the participation of users, was determined by which of the possible options the program should work in this particular case.

If the program automatically selects one of the possible options for working in a case, this means that such settings asked the developer of this program, this is the default settings. The user during the skill and desire can change them to others.

More complicated by the programmer, it is easier to the user

Determine when the program can do one single action and when there may be several such options, quite not easy. Consider this on the example of moving the mouse cursor using the "" manipulator. If the user will move the mouse manipulator, it would seem that the only possible reaction to this programmer must set the mouse cursor through the Windows desktop screen. It seems to be the only action.

But you can move the cursor on the screen at different speeds. One user likes a high speed of moving the mouse cursor over the desktop in response to the small movement of the "Mouse" manipulator on the real table.

Another user is more convenient if the speed of moving the cursor will be slower, and someone likes to work at all "with the brakes". Accordingly, this movement speed can be configured (adjustable) in the mouse settings (for Windows XP, this is adjustable: "Start" - "Settings" - "Control Panel" - "Mouse" - "Pointer Parameters" - "Set the speed of the pointer").

But after all, after the first installation of Windows or after the first connection of the new Mouse PC, the Mesh pointer cursor starts to move from some "middle" speed, and at the same time the PC user specified anything in the settings.

This is called the default settings. That is, the programmers in advance as it were already configured the software to perform certain functions, while possible options for performing these functions can be a great set.

Pros and cons default

The defaults simplify the work of PC users, especially novice users. They allow you to create a friendly interface for software, making the process of using the programs convenient and comfortable. At the same time, users do not know what is the default.

Imagine for a minute that it would be if in all cases of multiplicity of decision making software would seek questions to the user:

• Do you want to move the mouse cursor right?
• Are you sure about that?
• How fast is it moving?

- This is from the anti-friendly interface area.

But defaults are made in themselves and problems for users. If the user works with the software solely on the basis of the defaults prepared by the programmer, thus, the user consciously limits the use of many other features laid down in the program.

For example, when working with a mouse manipulator, the user can not only adjust the speed of moving the cursor, but also adjust the accuracy of the pointer, its appearance, the ability to use special effects when moving the pointer, adjust the speed of movement due to the rotation of the mouse wheel, change the destination of the mouse buttons and T .P.

When the default is impossible

Not always programmers laid defaults to their programs. Sometimes it fails them. For example, try in the Microsoft Office program to create a new document (the main menu button is "Create"), enter any text in a new "clean" document (even if consisting of one word), and then try saving this "new" text using the menu "Save" (Main Button Menu - "Save" or Take the Mouse Cursor to the diskette image and click on the left mouse button).

Alas, the document will not be automatically saved, in this case only the option "Save as" and the user will be prompted to specify the name of the file, its location in the file system, the file extension option and other parameters.

Another thing is when the user opens a previously created file using the Microsoft Office program. In this case, after any editing of this file, click on the diskette icon (or the main menu button - "Save") will save changes in the same file under the same name that was opened initially.

The following example with the Microsoft Word program indicates that the default modes can be defined by programmers only where these defaults can be in principle.

If the programmer does not know in advance how the new file created for the first time using Microsoft Word will be called, then it does not specify the "default", but it will be programming in such a way that the program in this case should remove the question for the user, and offering The user take their own responsible decision.

Change default settings or not change?

Beginner users must be attentive to software actions in the default mode. They need to understand whether the actions of the software are the only possible and not assumes any settings, or this one of the possible actions of the program, followed by various settings and pointers that allow you to expand the capabilities of the PC software.

You can even say that the differences between advanced PC users from novice users largely consist precisely in understanding software actions in the default mode. Beginner users often do not understand whether they are all possible software to solve their questions using a computer.

And experienced users studied in detail and learned how to apply all sorts of software settings (both applied and systemic), and thereby sometimes more effectively use the opportunities provided.

At the same time, I would not want to be perceived by default modes only as funds for novice users. Quite often, "advanced" users use defaults, not all of them constantly set up and reconfigure the software, and not all of them only at the expense of this are "progress".

Settings are good, but besides this there are many other features: menu of programs, badges and buttons to manage programs, the context menu (for example, by pressing the right mouse button), program control using the keyboard or, etc. All this expands the possibilities of using PCs, and "promotes" users from the category of beginners to the category "Advanced".

Examples of defaults

Now let's look at some examples of defaults used when working with PCs. We have already told about the mouse. Similarly, you can configure the keyboard, or use the parameters that were specified by default.

In the same way, all other devices connected to the PC or located inside the PC are working - they can operate in the default mode or you can customize, as a rule, through the control panel.

Default in file names

Windows files are usually shown as a file name without specifying the file extension. For example, name.docx will be shown the name name, and the extension.docx will be hidden. Each file necessarily has a name, and almost always (although not always) there is an extension.

The default file name extensions are not shown. Made it for the benefit of users. If you change the extensions of the files "like gloves", then Windows will be easier or late with the problem of opening files, that is, which program you can open a file with unfamiliar Windows expansion.

About how to make Windows showing file extensions, is described.

By file extension, the Windows system automatically defines the default program designed to process this file. At the same time, this file can be processed not only using the default program. Often, several programs can be applied to process the same file.

It is enough to right-click near the file icon and the context menu to see options, such as "open" or "open with ...". The second option provides for a different program, except the default program, to edit the file.

Default browser

To search for information on Internet, users can use various browsers: from standard Microsoft Internet Explorer to Google Chrome. The user's browser selection does independently if initially starts it on the PC, and then starts the search.

However, the link to the online page can be received by the user by email, or this link may be published in any file on the user's computer. In this case, which of the installed browsers should be applied to go through this link? And Windows selects the default browser. And these defaults are set via the "Control Panel", or using the browser settings if these settings allow you to announce a browser with a program to work with the default pages.

RESULTS

Examples of defaults in software can be given an infinite amount, since this approach is the usual practice of programmers when writing both applied and system software. Programmers silent about how in each specific case, change the program execution program, optimize its execution, improve the interface, increase productivity, etc.

But they do it not to "hide" settings from users, and in order for users to work both in the default mode, and consciously changing software settings.

Undoubted the advanced PC software capabilities, and users agree with these defaults, or change them in accordance with their requests, needs, habits, etc., which makes the software as convenient and comfortable for everyone who decided to use the PC in their work , houses or on vacation.

You have to often create new user accounts, but you do not want to spend time on setting up each of them? Configure one account according to your needs, and then use it as a template for new accounts on your computer.

1. Go to the system with an administrative account. Create a new account on the control panel in the User Accounts window (User Accounts).

2. Exit the system and log in again, IO is already with a new account.

3. Configure the account at your own discretion. On some conductory settings that may be useful in this situation, it is described in chapter 2.

4. Having finished, exit the system and log in with the usual administrative account.

5. If not done, in the Folder Options window, turn on the display of hidden files and folders in the Windows Explorer. Read more about this in chapter 2.

6. Then open the System (System) on the control panel and in its left side, click the Advanced System Settings (Advanced System Settings) reference.

7. On the Advanced tab (Advanced) in the User Profiles section, click the Settings link.

8. Select the newly created and configured user account and click Copy.

9. In the Profile Copying window, click Overview, select the C: \\ Users \\ Default User folder and click OK.

10. Click OK, then yes (Yes) to start copying. The contents of the Default User folder will be deleted, and the Windows settings will record the Windows settings instead.

Now new settings can be used as a template when creating user accounts. The temporary account created in step 1 is no longer needed, and you can delete it.