Comments on: Tweak: Auto-login on Startup & Lock PC Immediately

By: Uninstall Program

Uninstall Program — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:59:07 +0000

This will be great if it will work. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Uninstall Program

Uninstall Program — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:59:00 +0000

This will be great if it will work. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Computer keeps restarting

Computer keeps restarting — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:16:57 +0000

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By: ahpatel

ahpatel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:54:07 +0000

The solution I posted, combined with a BIOS pw, resolves the wait-time issue by putting the pw prompt at the beginning of the process instead of in the middle of it.

The only thing I can think of to securely get around your use case is to put your computer in a hibernation state rather than shutting it down. Is that an option?

Let me know if you come up with anything.

By: ahpatel

ahpatel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:07 +0000

By: Gonzales

Gonzales — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:20:25 +0000

Oh, I now understand your reply and you are right, but this bios feature is not available for any BIOS.

Anyway, with BIOS password you only move the login option from the OS log-in to the BIOS log-in, but still have to log-in before your programs are loaded.

Using this BIOS login you can as well disable Windows Login and only lock computer at start-up.

Also using BIOS password you cannot schedule your computer to automatically boot up at a specific time and have everything waiting for you when you sit in front of your desk

By: ahpatel

ahpatel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:37:37 +0000

So, on my Lenovo T60p, there is a BIOS option called “power-on password”. This means that as soon as I hit the power button, I'm presented with a password field. Without entering the correct password, I can't access the BIOS or even boot from device/disk (so, no OS can be loaded w/o a pw; hence, no ability to hit F8 to get the Windows options).

By: Gonzales

Gonzales — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:16:00 +0000

Not sure if safe-mode boot can be controled via BIOS security as it is 'Windows' Safe-mode … F8 key pressing or interrupting a normal boot will automatically show “Safe-mode” as an windows boot option.

By: ahpatel

ahpatel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:34 +0000

Using a boot-time password would alleviate this security risk because it would require a password before presenting an option to enter safemode.

Thanks for the comment. I'll update the post to address this.

By: Gonzales

Gonzales — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:40:50 +0000

There is a security risk involved here: if somebody boots the computer in safe mode the start-up files are disabled and so the computer will automatically log in (eventually to your admin profile) but it will not lock. Any idea how to fix this?