We have a shared PC ( XP Professional ) that is occasionally used by
more than one group. After logging on and off the machine locally as
an admin, the log on screen still shows the Admin and local machine.
After I log off, I do not want to log back on as the normal group - -
I want to leave the machine logged off. Even if I type in the other
username, and change the "Log On to:" back to the network, it still
changes back to last successful logon - which is the admin User Name.

Is there a way to make the "User name:" and "Log On to:" default to
the other group? Maybe after a Restart?

Dig

dig314 wrote:
> We have a shared PC ( XP Professional ) that is occasionally used by
> more than one group. After logging on and off the machine locally
> as an admin, the log on screen still shows the Admin and local
> machine. After I log off, I do not want to log back on as the
> normal group - - I want to leave the machine logged off. Even if I
> type in the other username, and change the "Log On to:" back to the
> network, it still changes back to last successful logon - which is
> the admin User Name.
>
> Is there a way to make the "User name:" and "Log On to:" default to
> the other group? Maybe after a Restart?

Your system administrator should be able to tell you this...
Change the registry values before you log off....

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultDomainName"="YourDomain"
"DefaultUserName"=""
"AltDefaultUserName"=""
"AltDefaultDomainName"="YourDomain"

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