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All of the web pages and scripts that TIM Enterprise serves are protected by a login that is provided by a user when entering their username and password into a pop-up dialog presented by their the web browser.

In some situations, it is desirable to suppress this dialog box demanding the username and password. An example might be the deployment of a stand-alone computer displaying a pre-defined wallboard on a large screen ; - it would become tedious having to log in to the web page every time that computer is restarted.

Different web browsers behave differently when asked to automatically log in to web sites. Variously, they range from complete prohibition of the practise practice to permitting it only if certain system parameters are configured.

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Although including the username and password in a URL is disabled by default on Windows Internet Explorer, since it is considered a security risk, you can override this restriction by making the following changes to the Windows Registry.

Tip
Since you'll be exposing a username and password as part of a URL, it is recommended that you create a dedicated web user dedicated 
Referencemacro
LabelWeb User
object inside the TIM Enterprise directory that will be used solely for this purpose.   See Refer to the Web usersuser page for details of how to set up a web user.

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