5 Commissioning and operation5.6 Operating system XP-503 with Windows Embedded Standard 7XP-503 04/2020 MN048014 EN Eaton.com 475.6.3 Managing Accounts and Auto Logon functionalityManaging AccountsThere is an “XP503” user account with administration rights set up on your Eaton XP-503 unit whenshipped from the factory. During initial power on, the user has to enter a new password for thisaccount. After the change, the Windows "Restart" function must be performed. Shutting down theXP503 and then perform a normal Power on is not sufficient!CAUTIONData lossA power interruption on reboot may cause the XP-503 to not start properly anymore.In this case, contact the support.Modifying an Account Name or PasswordYou can modify the user account settings or create any other account from the “User Accounts” utilityin “Control Panel” (Start->Control Panel->User Accounts).Once changes have been done to the user settings and the “direct device start” feature has beensetup before, you have to modify the related registry settings following the advise in section “Directdevice start”. All changes made to the C:\ drive when Protect Mode is active must besaved or committed so that the next time the XP-503 is restarted thechanges will be retained. Refer to the “Protect Mode” section for additionalinformation.5.6.4 Direct device startYou can activate a direct device start (without entering username and password) if you add enries tothe Windows registry. The needed procedure is described on Support.microsoft.com/en-us. Searchfor “How-to-turn-on-automatic-logon-in-windows”.