Hiding login names

[David Jones]

Assuming you're on XP Pro...

There's two steps.

Step 1 is to turn off the Welcome screen and use the
NT4/2000 logon box. Open Control Panel->User Accounts,
and uncheck the box for Use the Welcome Screen.

Note that you cannot use Fast User Switching once you
turn off the welcome screen.

Step 2 is to launch the Group Policy Editor (Start-
>Run, "gpedit.msc"

Expand Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security
Settings, Local Policies, and click Security Options.

Find "Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name",
double-click it, change to Enabled.
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings all,
>
>When the PC boots up, I do NOT want any login names to
display in a list.
>Nor do I want a "default" name to display in the
UserName box of the main
>login box. What I'm tyring to do is "beef up" the
security so that an
>intruder would not only have to guess the correct
password, he'd also have
>to guess a valid username.
>
>I can set it so that XP doesn't show the list of all
users set up on the PC,
>but I can't figure out how to set it so that a valid
name doesn't show in
>the UserName box. Is this too much for XP to handle? :-)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Larry123
>
>
>.
>

[larry123]

Thank you David!

"David Jones" > wrote in message
...
> Assuming you're on XP Pro...
>
> There's two steps.
>
> Step 1 is to turn off the Welcome screen and use the
> NT4/2000 logon box. Open Control Panel->User Accounts,
> and uncheck the box for Use the Welcome Screen.
>
> Note that you cannot use Fast User Switching once you
> turn off the welcome screen.
>
> Step 2 is to launch the Group Policy Editor (Start-
> >Run, "gpedit.msc"
>
> Expand Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security
> Settings, Local Policies, and click Security Options.
>
> Find "Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name",
> double-click it, change to Enabled.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Greetings all,
> >
> >When the PC boots up, I do NOT want any login names to
> display in a list.
> >Nor do I want a "default" name to display in the
> UserName box of the main
> >login box. What I'm tyring to do is "beef up" the
> security so that an
> >intruder would not only have to guess the correct
> password, he'd also have
> >to guess a valid username.
> >
> >I can set it so that XP doesn't show the list of all
> users set up on the PC,
> >but I can't figure out how to set it so that a valid
> name doesn't show in
> >the UserName box. Is this too much for XP to handle? :-)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Larry123
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Earl F. Parrish]

"larry123" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you David!
>
Every Windows XP computer has an Administrator user name. With that
name one does not need to know any other user names. One does not
have to guess the name. You should rely upon strong passwords to
protect your computer and not hidden user names.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[larry123]

Earl,

I agree. I have set the Administrator up with a strong and long password.
(No one actually uses that logon.) I just want to prevent guests in my house
from even being tempted to to login. Why give them half the key?

I guess I can always turn on the BIOS level password protection, too.

Thanks.




"Earl F. Parrish" > wrote in message
...
>
> "larry123" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Thank you David!
> >
> Every Windows XP computer has an Administrator user name. With that
> name one does not need to know any other user names. One does not
> have to guess the name. You should rely upon strong passwords to
> protect your computer and not hidden user names.
>
> --
> Earl F. Parrish
>

[David Jones]

You can also rename the Administrator account.
I would also agree that you need to use strong passwords,
but you seem to have that covered.

>-----Original Message-----
>Earl,
>
>I agree. I have set the Administrator up with a strong
and long password.
>(No one actually uses that logon.) I just want to
prevent guests in my house
>from even being tempted to to login. Why give them half
the key?
>
>I guess I can always turn on the BIOS level password
protection, too.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>"Earl F. Parrish" > wrote in
message
...
>>
>> "larry123" > wrote in
message
>> ...
>> > Thank you David!
>> >
>> Every Windows XP computer has an Administrator user
name. With that
>> name one does not need to know any other user names.
One does not
>> have to guess the name. You should rely upon strong
passwords to
>> protect your computer and not hidden user names.
>>
>> --
>> Earl F. Parrish
>>
>
>
>.
>