Problem using Tweak UI to set administrator accound ID from showing

[bobalston9]

I have a problem after I use the administrator account to log in to a
user's PC. After I logoff, when the user tries to logon, the
administrator account ID is automatically displayed. This confuses the
heck out of my users who often try typing their passwords and then
locking themselves out (cause they did not change the login ID).

I read that Tweak UI has a setting to allow a specific logon ID to NOT
be shown.

I just downloaded Tweak UI and ran it. Unfortunately I cannot find
anywhere where I can uncheck a user ID so it won't showup at the login
screen.

Can someone help me out??

thank you

Bob

 

[Haggis]

I have a problem after I use the administrator account to log in to a
user's PC. After I logoff, when the user tries to logon, the
administrator account ID is automatically displayed. This confuses the
heck out of my users who often try typing their passwords and then
locking themselves out (cause they did not change the login ID).

I read that Tweak UI has a setting to allow a specific logon ID to NOT
be shown.

I just downloaded Tweak UI and ran it. Unfortunately I cannot find
anywhere where I can uncheck a user ID so it won't showup at the login
screen.

Can someone help me out??

thank you

Bob

I think what you want is the "clear last user logon" under the "paranoia"
section.

then the user has to put their logon name in and password

 

[SV]

I think what you want is the "clear last user logon" under the "paranoia"
section.

then the user has to put their logon name in and password

Bob,
When I first read your post, I checked my TweakUI and didn't find anything.
I see Haggis has. Unfortunately, I don't HAVE a Paranoia setting and it hit
me that I'm using TweakUI for XP (Tweak UI v 200.1.0). My old systems (W2k
and W95) both had the original version (with LOTS more options, I think) and
Paranoia was my favorite tab!

Check your version: If Start>Programs says " Power Toys for Windows XP",
then my thinking is that there's a reason you can't find that setting. In
Tweak-UI, on the left, I selected 'About" and at the bottom of the
right-side was the version.

Haggis, what's your version? I'm hesitant to use my TweakUI (Windows 95,
FAT16, I think) on XP, but if it works for you, I see an uninstall/new
install in my immediate future!

Shane

 

[bobalston9]

Bob,

No I don't have a Paranoia section.

Also I don't have another section under Logon, where another MVP said
there were settings that would do what I wanted.

Bob

 

[Seahawk60B]

You don't need TweakUI -

If you use the standard NT style of login and want to hide the last
user:

Start the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Go to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings /
Local Policies / Security Options
Scroll down to Interactive logon: Do not display last user name
Set it to Enable

 

[bobalston9]

You don't need TweakUI -

If you use the standard NT style of login and want to hide the last
user:

Start the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Go to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings /
Local Policies / Security Options
Scroll down to Interactive logon: Do not display last user name
Set it to Enable

Interesting. Any way to avoid displaying an administrator's login.

the issue is I logged in using an administrator ID.

when the user tries to login next, the administrator ID is there.
The enter only their pw as usual and their login fails. They can't
figure out why.
then they try too many times and get locked out.

Bob

 

[Bob I]

Interesting. Any way to avoid displaying an administrator's login.

the issue is I logged in using an administrator ID.

when the user tries to login next, the administrator ID is there.
The enter only their pw as usual and their login fails. They can't
figure out why.
then they try too many times and get locked out.

Bob

RE-read the preceding.

 

[bobalston9]

RE-read the preceding.

Thank you for pointing me back again to your original reply.
If I interpret this option correctly, it would NEVER display the last
user name, always asking the user to enter both the ID and PW.
Obviously that is a bit less desirable from the user standpoint.

Anyone know about the TweakUI capability to do this? I didn't find it
in the current version for XP Pro but apparently it was in prior
versions.

Anyone else have an idea that would leave the normal, user ID in place
at the logon screen, so they would only have to enter their PW - but
make this happen even after I have logged on using an Administrator
ID???

Thanks

Bob

 

[SV]

Bob,
I've been reading the other posts, and I think I see the difficulty here.

First, You're using TweakUI for XP and it doesn't appear to have that
function. (TweakUI for W98 etc is supposed to work FINE with XP, so that
Paranoia tab would be there.)

Second, UNFORTUNATELY, if I see it right, that setting in the Paranoid tab
for older TweakUI does the same thing as the Group Edit described by
Seahawk.

See.. that bit is for computers where a number of people log on the same
place, and so will likely be accustomed to entering their logon name first
anyway. It looks like your situation is that you'll only be working on a
given system once in a while, and so the single user of that system isn't
accustomed to entering their names.

So, all I can suggest is that when you are finished working on a computer,
you log in as the user (or have the user log in using their user name), so
their name is the last one displayed from then on. The advantage of having
them do it is that if you're having them log in, you're there to answer any
questions or provide any information about the change you were working on.
Even if all you say is "It will be invisible to you, but I want to see your
system boot up in your name before I call it good" will get their name in
that field.

I don't know of a way to 'don't show administrator user name', though there
might be a way to do that.

Shane

 

[Seahawk60B]

You may want to play with some of the registry values under the
Winlogon key-
There are values for DefaultUserName and AltDefaultUserName.

I've not tried it, but perhaps setting one of those to your user's id
will result in the desired behavior.

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon