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Posted 19 March 2008 - 09:00 PM

I have 110 machines all running the same basic image. patches have of course been applied to all of the machines since they were built. the machines have all been frozen using deepfreeze when not patching so i cant account for this odd change.

today i migrated the last room full of them onto AD they all applied 60-70 updates from wsus and are now 100% up to date.
they are all subject to GPOs that automatically logs them on at boot

109 of them have no issues but 1 of them displays this screen for about a minute before processing the autologin information from the registry

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normally, machines on the domain without an autologon policy will display the Ctrl+Alt+Del to logon screen (a GPO that applies to the whole domain tells it to) but machines with the autologon policy bypass that screen entirely
ill prolly just reimage this machine to make it the same as the rest but im curious if anyone has ever seen this type of behavior on XP?


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Posted 19 March 2008 - 09:30 PM

It's odd, and it's been years since I've seen this (not since W2K ghost images) - I don't remember what caused it anymore, but I logged in, ran secedit to refresh back to defaults, and re-applied group policy (and my autologin .reg file) and the problem went away (again, IIRC).

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