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Signing into accounts on power up without activating the console
Hi,
I have several user accounts on one machine under Windows 10. I would like to re-log-into these user accounts when the machine reboots from an update or from an extended (longer than UPS hold-up) power failure.
I use Thunderbird and have a lot of junk filtering going on which protects my phone from most spam.
I will be moving my two sons to Dropbox and back their stuff up to my NAS units continuously rather than intermittently.
For these accounts, I want the users' accounts to boot when the machine boots so that Dropbox is making a copy to the local HDD. The NAS units take it from there (final sync method TBD).
In no instance do I want a "live" console.
After I automatically log into the accounts, I want the machine left as if I had hit "switch user" after logging into each account--several accounts active and running, but the console waiting for a login.
I have been testing this in principal where I copy images from a friend's Dropbox to her Google Drive and to my NAS units. Right now I have to manually log into the account that does this after each reboot.
I have looked around and nothing seems to address this mode. Any help is appreciated.
For my account, I also wish to start Thunderbird as well as log in. I assume just adding Thunderbird to the StartUp group will work?
C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (courtesy of
How to Add Programs, Files, and Folders to System Startup in Windows )
Thanks!
Richard
P.S. I am in the process of bringing 20 machines from W7 and W8.1 to W10.
Seven down, thirteen to go. five of the twenty are W8.1, the rest W7.