See: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10128.tools-for-troubleshooting-slow-boots-and-slow-logons-sbsl.aspx
Tag Archives: Login
Mac – Lion – Add host info to login window
Before 10.7, by default you could click in the login window to get information on the IP address, hostname etc. Now, in 10.7.3, you have to add this to the preferences with …
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo HostName
Mac – Lion – Login Window Text
To add text to the mac login window use the LoginwindowText string in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist as in:
# defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText -string “Classroom Equipment Support – Phone Ext: 2112 or 413-597-2112 First time login to this computer may take a few minutes to build a new profile. Questions-Suggestions: [email protected]”
Mac – Lion – Login window banner
To create a specific and pretty login window banner for an acceptable use policy see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4788
Windows – Autologin
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:18:38 -0400 6 of 1932
From: University and College Computer Lab Managers (on behalf of Newell Seal)
Subject: Re: vmware client in kiosk mode
To: [email protected]
We Use the following instructions to autologin some of our machines to the domain maybe it will work for you also.
Open Regedit and Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Double-click the DefaultUserName entry, type the user name to log on with, and then click OK.If DefaultUserName registry value name is not found, create the new String Value (REG_SZ) with value name as DefaultUserName.
Double-click the DefaultPassword entry, type the password for the user account under the value data box, and then click OK.If there is no DefaultPassword value, create a new String Value subkey (REG_SZ) with DefaultPassword as the value name. Note that if no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon registry key from 1 (true) to 0 (false) to turn off the AutoAdminLogon feature.
In Windows Vista or 7, DefaultDomainName has to be specified as well, else Windows will prompt of invalid user name with user name displayed as .\username. To do so, double click on DefaultDomainName, and specify the domain name of the user account. If it is local user, specify local host name. If the DefaultDomainName does not exist, create a new String Value (REG_SZ) registry key with value name as DefaultDomainName.
Double-click the AutoAdminLogon entry, type 1 in the Value Data box, and then click OK.If there is no AutoAdminLogon entry, create a new String Value entry (REG_SZ) with AutoAdminLogon as the value name.
If exist, delete the AutoLogonCount key.
Newell Seal
Lab Support Administrator
[email protected]
Mac – Lion – Login Background and Apple Logo
This application allows you to change both the background image and the apple logo on the login window:
http://www.loginox.branox.com/
Lion – Login Banner
Now with Lion you can set a login banner that is displayed to the user and the user has to “accept” before proceeding. I set this in group policy on my windows computers and will be setting this on Lion.
Windows Login Background
To set the login background for windows 7 … that is the background image displayed on the login screen …
First – put your image in:
C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\backgroundDefault.jpg
(you will likely have to create this directory structure …)
Then create/edit a DWORD – 32bit registry key “OEMBackground” and set it to 1 in:
[hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background\
reboot …
For more info see:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-change-windows-7-logon-screen-easily-without-using-hacks-tools/
Mac – Change Login Background
Create a jpg and copy it to:
/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
For more details see: http://osxdaily.com/2010/01/25/change-the-mac-login-screen-background/