Directly Boot To the desktop in Windows XP Home / Professional

If you want to log in to your desktop directly after rebooting, you can automate the login process easily.

Note: For security reasons, you would usually want to have a password, but for a home computer you may not care.

Steps to be followed to skip log in screen

1. Go to the Start menu, click Run, and type in the following:
control userpasswords2
You will be presented with a window similar to this one:



Uncheck the box, and click the OK button. You will be presented with a password dialog for the currently logged in user.

Now when you reboot your system, you will automatically be logged in.

This can be very useful when you are installing a bunch of software or testing out configurations and want to save time.