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I need to setup publicly available computer to perform automatic log on using domain credentials when powering on. When it was not a domain member this option was available on control userpasswords2 panel, but after domain join this setting have gone.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

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You can run a SysInternals tool from live.sysinternals.com\Tools called Autologon.exe to do the registry change a bit more easily.

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Set the following settings in the registry, and it should work:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

AutoAdminLogon = 1
ForceAutoLogon = 1
DefaultUserName = username
DefaultPassword = password
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The bat thing about this is that you saved the password in plain text. Using Sysinternals Autologon tool you saved it encrypted. – Ricardo Polo Oct 17 '11 at 20:19
Which is a good thing to point out, however that's true for all of these fixes. Not to mention if the PC is automatically logged into the domain, any random public user already has access to the domain under those particular credentials. – gharper Oct 18 '11 at 15:34
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Full instructions here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

You need to edit the registry direct.

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