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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Disabling the CTRL+ALT+DEL Prompt in Login Screen

In the Start menu, expand Administrative Tools and click Local Security Policy.














In the Local Security Policy editor expand Local Policies and click Security Options. In the right pane search and open Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL and choose Enabled. Save your change by clicking OK.

How To: Make an Invisible User Account in XP/2003/Vista/2008

  • Open registry.
  • Navigate to following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT /CurrentVersion/Winlogon.
  • In the left panel, right click on Winlogon and click New and click Key.
  • Type SpecialAccounts and press Enter.
  • In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key.
  • Type UserList and press Enter.
  • In right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value.
  • Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter.
  • In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify.
  • To hide the user account – Type 0 and click OK.
  • 11) Whenever you want to use the account just unhide the it by typing 1 instead of zero.