We have kiosk computers that have been configured to autologin for years with a non-privileged account. All the sudden yesterday, the autologin is no longer functioning on any of them, and it is failing in a very unique/interesting way that we don’t quite understand. First, we have autologin configured in the registry by creating the below registry keys, but have also tried using SysInternals’s Autologon application and the same issue occurs:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonAutoAdminLogon (REG_SZ) set to "1"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonDefaultDomainName (REG_SZ) set to "mydomain"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonDefaultUserName (REG_SZ) set to "myusername"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonDefaultPassword (REG_SZ) set to "mypassword"
It successfully enters the account’s credentials into the username/password box, then just… sits there at the login screen. It’s like it doesn’t just “press enter” to submit the credentials. If we come up to the kiosk and do nothing at all but touch the arrow next to the password box on the kiosk’s touchscreen, the account signs in just fine, but it doesn’t do so automatically anymore and we can’t seem to figure out why. To the best of our knowledge, nothing has changed to cause this to happen in the last couple of days. No GPO changes, no updates, etc. Any guidance/advice would be appreciated.
