Re: Prevent user-name from showing on the log-on screen?
From: Roy Rogers (roy_rogers@yippee-ki-yay.com)
Date: 10/25/02
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From: "Roy Rogers" <roy_rogers@yippee-ki-yay.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:12:33 -0400
Think the easiest way to do this is to run the "Local Security Policy"
plugin from your "Administrative Tools" folder. There's a bunch of stuff you
can twaek without manually editing the registry.
"Earl Lewis" <brassono_spam@mybizz.net> wrote in message
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> I'm running a stand-alone PC with XPpro. I use an NT-style log-on
> screen, ie NOT the Welcome screen. Each time I log off a user, that
> user name appears on the next sign-on screen. How could I prevent that
> from happening? It seems to me that if the user-name shows on the
> screen, that a person wanting to sign on illegally would be halfway
> there, only needing to figure out the password.
>
> BTW, I'm not so naive to think that the passwords are very secure,
> anyway. I downloaded a Linux disk that resets them for you.
> EArl
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