logon shows last username

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

Create a Reg_SZ value called DontDisplayLastUserName
and set it to 1.
 
Scott said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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,
 
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