This is a clever little tool where you can feed in your logon name and password, and then when powered on, it automatically provides these and brings you straight to your desktop. Maybe combine that with starting your e-mail client on startup and you can get ready to go just from pressing the power button. Note that the password is encrypted, so you need not fear it's sitting in the clear in the registry.
DISCLAIMER: I am not recommending this be used in any situations. Username and password logons are there for a reason and you should only use the tool if you fully understand the implications involved and do so at your own risk.
That being said the following two cases seem like ones that may be suitable.
- You have some sort of full disk encryption in place (i.e. BeCrypt or PGP). You need to supply one set of logon credentials just to get to the OS, so if you're the only one that knows these credentials, the second logon prompt is somewhat redundant
- You would rather not have a password prompt on logon, and can guarantee the physical security of the laptop, but can't (or wont) change the machines security settings.
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