Specify a username at Login

[peter.marshall]

I am required to do weekly audits of computers in our company on a
weekly basis. One of the requirements is that I am physically at the
users computer. That aside, windows always remembers the last user to
log in. Is there a registry entry or something that I can edit to
force a specifc username to come up in the username field upon login ?

Thanks for the help.

Peter

 

[Steven L Umbach]

There is not setting for that but you can configure security policy with the
security option to prevent the last logon name from showing. You should not
be using an account in the domain admins, enterprise admins group, or built
in administrator account for the domain to logon to those computers. ---
Steve

 

[peter.marshall]

Thanks. ... I was using the local admin account ... so it would show up
as administrator when they went to log in .... I found the option to
blank out the username .... but ... I don't really like that as much
.....
I don't understand why there is no option for what I want to do ... the
information for last login must be stored somewhere ....

Thanks for your help.

Peter

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Why would you want to specify a specific user account?? --- Steve

 

[peter.marshall]

Well .. if your username is "Steve" .. and every morning when you come
to log into your computer, the username "Steve" is displayed, and then
all the sudden the user "administrator" is displayed ... "Steve" is
going to be tramping into my office and hasteling me ... to avoid
these situations .. it would be nice to have "Steve" pop up as the
username instead of "administrator" ....

Peter

 

[Paul Adare]

the microsoft.public.win2000.security news group,

Well .. if your username is "Steve" .. and every morning when you come
to log into your computer, the username "Steve" is displayed, and then
all the sudden the user "administrator" is displayed ... "Steve" is
going to be tramping into my office and hasteling me ... to avoid
these situations .. it would be nice to have "Steve" pop up as the
username instead of "administrator" ....

You can add this to the registry after you've done your work as admin.
Google for auto login and you'll find the relevant registry key. There's
no way to do this automatically.

--
Paul Adare
MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
http://www.identit.ca/blogs/paul/
"The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
labeled as such."
Ray Shea

 

[Steven L Umbach]

OK. I thought maybe you had some other reason in mind. I have heard of a few
others wanting to have a non existent account name to show thinking it would
improve security. As Paul mentioned there is a registry key that you could
try changing but you would need to do it on each computer. Though I believe
you and understand what you are faced with I find it amazing that someone
would try to track you down rather than simply entering their logon name.
Maybe you could configure the logon text to say "if you can't remember your
logon name you should work elsewhere" though I bet the ones that are
hassling you are higher ups that are idiots. --- Steve

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName