Re: Clear User Name Field when Unlocking PC

That has not been my experience. When I enable it the last logon user name
does not show but when the computer is locked it shows the user that was
logged on when the computer was locked. If you find something different be
sure to let us know.

Steve


"seree" <seree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Steve, so this setting won't configure the login status from a locked
position, if the OP is not using the welcome screen? I misunderstood the
setting then. The way it was presented was if the welcome screen is not in
use, this setting would clear the last use logged on in any situation.
Well,
that is too bad, oh well. At least I learned something new regarding that
particular setting today! lol Thanks for the response. Seree
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seree


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Thanks for that info and I am aware of that setting however the OP is
talking about when a computer is locked.

Steve


"seree" <seree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is a way to clear the Last User to Log On. Local Security
Settings
contains a policy that you might want to enable if you don't use the
welcome
screen. Ordinarily, the name of the last user who logged on appears in
the
User Name box of the Log On To Windows dialog box. On a system that's
used
primarily by a single user, this is a convenient freature that allows
the
user to log on again without typing his or her name each time. But it's
also
a bit of a security hole, because anyone can learn a valid user name
just
by
looking at this dialog box. If you're using Windows XP Professionnal,
you
can
prevent the last used name from apprearing by typing 'secpol.msc'
(without
the quotes) at a command prompt to open Local Security Settings. In
Local
Security Settings open Local Policies\Secuity Option. Then enable the
policy
named Interactive Logon: Do Not Display Last User Name.

Source: Windows XP-Inside Out, by Microsoft Press and co-authored by:
Ed
Bott, Carl Siechert, and Craig Stinson

Hope this helps, good luck and have a nice day, Seree
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seree


"WiZEGUY" wrote:



"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

There is nothing in security settings to do that and I have never
head
of a
registry settings to do that. Why do you need the field to be blank?

Steve


"WiZEGUY" <WiZEGUY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does anyone know how to clear the user name field when your using
the
ctrl+alt+del to unlock a computer that was manually locked? To be
more
specific, let's say you come to a computer that has been manually
locked
and
to unlock it you hit ctrl+alt+del, and immediately it shows the
user
that
locked it in the user name field. I need that field be blank.
It's
most
likely in the security settings or registry but i don't know where
to
look
for that option.

Your help is much appreciated!



i need the field to be blank because we have servers spread all over
the
US
in headends and we don't want any techs to try and hack into our
system.
It
would be more difficult to guess the user name along with the
password.






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