Stop remembering last user logon name

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I have searched all over on how to have Win XP Pro to stop remembering the
last username to logon. I have found a few tips on how to prevent it on win
2000, but nothing on xp pro. I have disabled the Welcome screen and now I
just have the login box, but for security reasons I don't want windows to
remember who last logged on. I found this registry hack on another site but
it didn't work:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
Type: Reg_SZ
Value: 1
 
I also tried clearing the value for the keys:
AltDefaultUserName
DefaultUserName

I logged off and viola the last username was not display! But as soon as I
logged back into windows and went into the registry my user name was once
again set as the value for
AltDefaultUserName
DefaultUserName

So I am still searching for solution. Please help :-)
 
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MidnightTwink said:
I have searched all over on how to have Win XP Pro to stop
remembering the last username to logon. I have found a few tips on
how to prevent it on win 2000, but nothing on xp pro. I have
disabled the Welcome screen and now I just have the login box, but
for security reasons I don't want windows to remember who last logged
on. I found this registry hack on another site but it didn't work:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
Type: Reg_SZ
Value: 1
Click to expand...

That's for NT.

In 2k/XP, you'd do this in the local computer policy....start, run,
gpedit.msc

Computer config\windows settings\security settings\local policies\security
options....

Find Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name, double-click on it
and enable it.
 
Hi
I enabled this setting on four of my XP machines that are part of a
workgroup. Two of the machines acted as expected. The ctrl+alt+del box
displays at log on and the user name is blank.

Two other machines refuse to change from fast user switching.

I printed out the security settings on a machine that doesn't display the
last user name and one that does. The settings are identical.

Any ideas?
 
P. Cully said:
Hi
I enabled this setting on four of my XP machines that are part of a
workgroup. Two of the machines acted as expected. The ctrl+alt+del
box displays at log on and the user name is blank.

Two other machines refuse to change from fast user switching.
Click to expand...

What errors do you get when you try? What do you see in the event logs?
 
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