Automatic Log-In Issues

ok i can't seam to setup automatic log in. i know how to set it up in the users & group settings, but i can't get the automatic login drop down menu to un gray so i can select my name. i looked up on youtube but I'm still not able to turn it on.

Thanks in Advance, Alice

Alice, you didn't say what version of OS X, but in Yosemite, you need to click on the lock in the lower left corner of the pane an enter an Admin password to open the options.

my bad, it is 10.10 Yosemite. i unlock the options but the drop down menu won open so thats why I'm confused. i even did a disk utilities repair disk permissions.

Well, I just tried it on my 10.10.5 system. System Preferences/Users & Groups, then click on Login Options at the bottom of the list of users, then the lock on the bottom left corner of the window, then when I click in the box where Automatic Login is shown as "Off" I get a list of users for whom I can select auto login. Is that the sequence you are using?

something is wrong with my install because there is no recovery option in power up holding option as well. i downloaded the OS X and going to try a fresh install. my last hope

reinstall of 10.10.5 yosemite fixed my issues. my gues was a bad update. i made a usb installer becase my recovery drive had vanished. still missing so not sure why that is. but I'm up and running with auto login working.

os x 10.10.5 confuses me so much. my auto log in stopped working again. but i guess its safer that way too, just a little annoying to deforced to log in every time.

System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Options (enter password) and then turn Automatic Login "ON" by selecting the account you want automatically logged in.

It's possible that the use has turned on FileVault, in which case automatic login is disallowed.