How to make Windows 7 easy to login locally or to domain?
We have 10 computers that will be used by kids and staff members. Idealy, we would like to be able to use parental controls and family safety on domain user accounts but this is not supported. So we have created local accounts on the computer for the kids and we want the staff to login to the domain on the same computers.I'm finding that it will be slightly complicated for the local kids account to logon after a staff member has logged in because of the way the Windows 7 logon screen operates.For example, if a kid wants to logon under the local account kids, they have to type in the following for the user name: kids-pc-01\kidsThen if the staff login, they have to switch user and then type in the following for the username: domain\usernameThis might seem easy if you are only using one computer but we have 10 computers will people are going to have to remember this for. And if they start hopping around from computer to computer this could become a big aggrevation.Anyone have any good ideas? Preferrably I'm looking for a way for all users, kids and staff, to logon to the domain but protect the kids accounts on the internet and lockdown the computer for them. But, I will take any other suggestions as well.Thanks.
September 28th, 2009 2:34pm

Thanks I will try the .\kids to logon locally. I do have to contest when you said "domain name will be input automatically." I had already tried this and what happened was below username, before I started typing in my user name, it did in fact have the "logon to DomainName Domain" but after I typed Administrator and pressed the tab key to go to the password text box, it changed from the domain name to the local computer name.
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September 29th, 2009 8:55am

You are wrong.The user name does not automatically get filled in. You manually have to type in domain name\user name then the password. when switching to local machine, you have to again type in local machine name\ user name then again password ex: HP\tommy then password. No matter how many times you switch back and forth, it still requires that info.
December 17th, 2009 2:15pm

You are wrong. The user name does not automatically get filled in... Actually, Shaon Shan said, "domain name will be input automatically".
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August 4th, 2011 10:03am

Did someone came up with a solution on this? I have a corporate Windows 7 enterprise deployment for a big corporation but it is pretty (or extremely) annoying when have to log on as an administrator, we have to put in computername/Administrator and the the password.. and the computername is extremely looooooong... there is not a problem when logging into the domain cause you dont have to write it as domain\username, it automatically sets it... On XP we where able to just put in the username, password and the log on to domain, locally etc... and that was EAAAAASY!!.. please, if you have ideas let me know, my email is salvadory@hotmail.com Thank you all!
November 8th, 2011 5:39pm

Wow... that's a nice one! Thank you much!!!! you are my favorite person today! haha..
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November 9th, 2011 9:47am

Very nice, easy to access & even we can access in any computer without checking the computer name first. Regards Kiran kiran
November 29th, 2011 5:02am

Nice trick thanks! Is there a way to set it so when you go to switch user and type administrator it doesn't default back to the local administrator? The trick above fixes the need for typing the local computer name but is there a fix for the domain\administrator to not need to be typed? I tried the local group policy setting in Logon but no luck.
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December 13th, 2011 11:29am

Thank you very much......
May 2nd, 2012 7:13am

I'm sure there is a reason for this, but for me sometimes I can just type the Local user name and it will change the domain to local machine. I haven't figured out why some machines do this and other don't. Maybe it works on machines I've previously logged in locally on, but I don't have any proof on that. At any rate the .\username is a great tip. Helped me out a lot.
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June 11th, 2012 8:57am

I've seen that happen too if it's the Administrator account that you are logging in with but I haven't seen it happen for any other account. Compro Computers LLC http://www.eccompro.com
June 11th, 2012 9:05am

Thank you very much :)!
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June 15th, 2012 4:30am

Did you ever get resolution to this? I have a similar issue where I need LOCAL accounts for control software to function yet (typically) they have always been domain accounts.
July 10th, 2012 3:31pm

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