Re: How to automate Network Password on bootup?
zeke7 wrote:
> On Nov 27, 3:06 am, Bob I <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>That "3rd party" stuff isn't under Windows control. Try "AutoIt" and
>>script the "G-mail" stuff. (D can be downloaded from the authors
>>web site and is free to use)
>>
>>zeke7 wrote:
>>
>>>On Nov 26, 11:54 pm, Steve <HxE...@alltel.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>Try searching microsoft.com for "TweakUI". I believe the version for
>>>>your Windows 2000 Pro is still there. Among many other adjustments, it
>>>>allows you to set an automatic logon at boot time.
>>
>>>>Steve Hendrix
>>
>>>>On Nov 27, 2:05 am, zeke7 <zekeba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>My username and password are filled in in the menu cells just fine,
>>>>>but I still need to click the button to get logged on and close out
>>>>>the popup window before I can see my desktop in its entirety.
>>
>>>Did my reply not get posted? (I hit 'reply to author', thinking it
>>>would be public but nested under Steve's reply.)
>>>Tweak UI controls only the initial WIndows log-on; what I'm referring
>>>to is a Network Log-on (initiated by Gmail Notifier) that appears only
>>>after you've logged on to Windows, while the desktop is being
>>>populated. Tweak UI unfortunately doesn't control that.
>
>
> Thanks Bob I for that AutiIT suggestion; from their web page it looks
> very useful, for even way more than my current problem.
>
> It looks like it might even emulate something I sorely miss from the
> old Win3.1 days: the 'action recorder' (can't remember its official
> name) that tracked and recorded your various keyboard strokes and
> mouse movements & clicks on the screen for later playback. A great
> tool for repetitive tasks (as long as your various windows stayed in
> the same place on the screen); I remain baffled why it's apparently
> been dropped in Win versions since then.
>
> A replier on another forum suggested Nirsoft's nircmd.exe, which looks
> like it might do the trick as well for closing the NetLogon menu, but
> AutoIT looks to be a good bit more versatile for my uses.
>
> He did provide an informative background on Gmail's dated Notifier
> (last updated 2004) vs. their more current Talk program (which also
> links to Google Chat etc.). Talk does perform a completely background
> logon at bootup (no popup menu), and also enables the disabling of
> notification sound alerts for incoming emails.
>
> Notifier doesn't enable shutting off new-mail sound alerts; the result
> is that if you disable the .wav file for New Mail Notifications in
> Control Panel, the alert sound gets routed to the computer's internal
> buzzer--a real nightmare! The tradeoff is Talk uses 12MB of memory vs.
> Notifier's 7MB.
You're most welcome, and I'm sure you will have the issue sorted out
quickly.