| http://www.lifehacker.com/soft...s-before-you-log-in-170334.php | Date: 4/28/2006 3:00 PM |
The BrainFuel blog explains how to set your Windows desktop to boot up before you login so that you can avoid the second boot-up that occurs as your user environment loads.
This method makes use of the always-useful Windows Powertoy TweakUI, which allows you to save your user password in order to login automatically on startup. The catch is, with a little registry hack, you are still required to login; however, Windows can do all the user environment startup on the initial boot-up that it normally saves until after you login. Make sense?
If you're sick of waiting for your environment to load after you login, this is a nice security-minded time saver that can help you consolidate Windows' two different load times.
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