How to remove Ctrl-Alt-Del on startup on windows 2000 server

Clarifications

The only reason you would do this is if you want the server to automatically log in when the server boots. Some programs require that they be running on a server and this is the easiest way fo doing it. If you are suing this key, you will also want to enter the username, password and domain name in the selected keys.

If this isn't what you're trying to accomplish I would be leary of not having the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen there. This works fine for PCs but servers are a completly differetn animal.

Do you want to just disable the ctrl-alt-del window, or log the machine in automatically after every reboot?

If it's the first one (just no ctrl-alt-del window) then only DisableCAD needs to be set to 0 see this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/37549.mspx?mfr=true

If you need to log in to the server automatically after every reboot/restart/logoff as \:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and add the following if they don't exist:

DefaultUserName REG_SZ
DefaultPassword REG_SZ
AutoAdminLogon REG_SZ 1
ForceAutoLogon REG_SZ 1

Obviously replacing and .

I've just tested this on Windows 2003 and it works fine, can't see why it shouldn't work with 2000.

If you need to log on as another user, hold down the shift key when logging off.