logon shows last username

[Guest]

I have a laptop running home edition with 4 user profiles. When the logon
screen comes up it always shows the last users username. How can I get it to
come up blank in the username? I dont have gpedit.msc since this is the home
edition.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a laptop running home edition with 4 user profiles. When the logon
screen comes up it always shows the last users username. How can I get it to
come up blank in the username? I dont have gpedit.msc since this is the home
edition.

Run regedit.exe, then navigate to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Create a Reg_SZ value called DontDisplayLastUserName
and set it to 1.

 

[Rock]

I have a laptop running home edition with 4 user profiles. When the logon
screen comes up it always shows the last users username. How can I get it
to
come up blank in the username? I dont have gpedit.msc since this is the
home
edition.

Run the edit on Kelly's site:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 150: Clear Last User on Boot Screen in XP

See the top of the page for info on running the edit.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Scott,

What Pegasus said is good, but you can also do it a different way via the
policy setting:

Click START
Click RUN
Type 'regedit' (without quotes) & click OK
Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

In the right pane, double-click the 'dontdisplaylastusername' & change the
setting from '1' to '0'

Click OK
Close the registry editor
Job done

I hope this helps,

 

[Newbie Coder]

Sorry,

I meant '0' to '1' not the other way around