No Accounts Displaying On Login Screen

[Guest]

Hi first time here hope you can help.

Bare with me this might take a while.

I upgraded fro XP home to Vista Home Premium first attempt did not work so
had to roll back with the help of a microsoft techy, after upgrading again
all works fine BUT all the accounts i created in XP and vista do not appear
on the login screen including the guest account. All i get is and empt
picture frame and two fields USER NAME & PASSWORD

I got through to another techy from MS who said i may have to set up new
accounts and migrate accross the profile. but before we could try much his
system went on a go slow and he said he would call back he didnt but thats
not the problem.

Anyway any ideas on resurecting the login screen are welcome.

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Can you log in to your accounts OK?

- JB

 

[Guest]

Hi
yes i can login by typing one of the old XP and new Vista accounts i set up
to test if that would work.

 

[Guest]

That's really odd. Your system is behaving as though two policies are
functioning on it.

Interactive logon: Do no show last user (Enabled)
Interactive logon: Do not use CTRL+ALT+DEL (Disabled)

But your original XP version and the new one are HOME versions, and they do
not have policy editors. I've seen a lot of bizarre stuff like this on
upgrade installations of Vista over earlier operating systems. I know a lot
of people say that the upgrade works, but I wouldn't do it on any system that
was important to me.

I'll be interested to see if Jimmy Brush has a suggestion for you.
Obviously, you can just use the system as is, but...

 

[Guest]

Yes sure would be greatful for any ideas.
At least microsoft Tech Supp has escalated my call to higher beings,
so i await their call on tuesday but i will hav a peek at those two settings
you mentioned.

I have a gut feeling its a registry problem but perhaps thats just being
optomistic.
if only it was as easy as adding them to a list (or perhaps it is?)

Thanks for posts so far!

 

[Guest]

I don't think you'll be able to check those policies because the policy
editor shouldn't even exist on that system. I suspect that you are correct in
thinking that the issue lies in the registry. If I knew the registry
equivalents of those policies I'd ask you to look in those locations. But
there are a number of registry locations which contain, for instance, the
significant wording "Do no display last user name", and I don't really think
it would be wise to start fiddling with them. Though, if I had a spare Vista
machine to whack about on, I'd edit its registry just to satisfy my curiosity
-- and, also, in hope of being able to provide some help.

What we need is a registry reference. I've used them in the past, but am
kind of out of that line now.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi JB

I just happened to be testing those two settings, for another user,
yesterday. Here are the results.

If you are using Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate, you can use the
Group Policy Editor to set the following policies.

Go to Start and type gpedit.msc and in the results, click to open the Group
Policy Editor. Navigate to Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration /
Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options.
Set the following options.

Interactive logon: Do not display last user name - Enabled

This will cause the old style login dialog to appear automatically, where
you must enter a user name and password to log in.

If you also want to require that users press CTRL+ALT+DEL to make the login
dialog appear, set the following in the group policy editor.

Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL - Disabled




If you are using Vista Home Basic or Home Premium you can use the registry
to set these same policies. Go to Start and type regedt32.exe. In the
results, right click regedit32.exe and select the Run As Administrator
option.

Warning, you should always backup the registry prior to making any changes.

Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Double click the following value and change the value data setting.

DontDisplayLastUserName (Change the Value Data to 1 (one) and click OK)

This will cause the old style login dialog to appear automatically, where
you must enter a user name and password to log in.

If you also want to require that users press CTRL+ALT+DEL to manually make
the login dialog appear, you must create the following registry DWord value.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right side pane, right click and select New / DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Name this value DisableCAD (Case sensitive) double click the new dword
and make sure the Value Data is set to 0 (Zero) click OK.

Exit the registry editor and reboot to see the changes. You will be required
to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and enter a user name and password to login.

 

[Guest]

And, right on cue, the "reference" appears! Thank you for that information,
Ronnie Vernon! I'm making a note of it for my own records. Though I doubt
that any of the systems I'll ever service or use at work or home will be
without a policy editor (And this would be one of the reasons.) I do know
people who will undboubtedly get one of the home versions. And some of them
may want to use these features.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Jimmy

Your welcome, glad this helped.

 

[Guest]

Hey, AirMarshall, are you still with us? Did you read the information Ronnie
Vernon provided? I'm thinking that those registry edits may be just what you
need!

 

[Guest]

Hi, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, Unfortunately Vista Home
Premium does not have a group policy editor, it uses the user accounts screen
to control logon Run "control userpasswords2" but i have tried something
similar using this tool with the MS Tech Supp Guy.

Its not end of the world stuff but jusrton of those niggly things.

Air Marshall

 

[Guest]

Hi, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, Unfortunately Vista Home
Premium does not have a group policy editor, it uses the user accounts screen
to control logon Run "control userpasswords2" but i have tried something
similar using this tool with the MS Tech Supp Guy.

Its not end of the world stuff but jusrton of those niggly things.

Air Marshall

 

[Guest]

Hi, sorry for the blank response. Something weird happened when the reply
screen came up and it just went ahead as though I had hit the Post button.

Just wanted you to know that the registry edits that Ronnie Vernon posted
were something that you could do in lieu of using a policy editor. That's
what's so neat about them. Policy editors are tools for enabling registry
settings.

And whatever other tool you used probably made the changes to the registry
that Ronnie Vernon suggested. But whatever works. I hope you got it all
straightened out!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

AirMarshall

My previous message included instructions on changing these settings in the
Home versions of Vista. Since these versions do not include the Group Policy
Editor, you can use the registry to edit the settings.

I'm thinking that the "DontDisplayLastUserName" was set to "1" somehow when
you upgraded. If you change the value for this registry entry to "0" (ZERO)
this should force the user accounts to appear on the Welcome screen. Here
are the instructions again.
----
If you are using Vista Home Basic or Home Premium you can use the registry
to set these same policies. Go to Start and type regedt32.exe. In the
results, right click regedit32.exe and select the Run As Administrator
option.

Warning, you should always backup the registry prior to making any changes.

Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Double click the following value and change the value data setting.

DontDisplayLastUserName (Change the Value Data to 1 (one) and click OK)

This will cause the old style login dialog to appear automatically, where
you must enter a user name and password to log in.

If you also want to require that users press CTRL+ALT+DEL to manually make
the login dialog appear, you must create the following registry DWord value.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right side pane, right click and select New / DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Name this value DisableCAD (Case sensitive) double click the new dword
and make sure the Value Data is set to 0 (Zero) click OK.

Exit the registry editor and reboot to see the changes. You will be required
to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and enter a user name and password to login.