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Hi, I'm looking to colocate my first windows server, and am wondering how you guys deal with Windows asking for a password when the computer boots up. I was told that having your computer boot straight to the desktop without requiring a password was insecure, but I thought that the computer was supposed to be able to reboot to desktop without any 3rd party intervention by scheduled task, crash etc. I'm getting pretty confused by this...
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You should use a password to login....
What people tend to to with gameservers is run them as a service so they are running even if the box boots up and you haven't logged in.
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You should be able to remote desktop a server that's not logged in set if remote desktop is running as a service.
Or just set the computer to auto-login with your password (for XP I use tweakUI). Once you remote desktop, it will lock the computer's screen.
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