COMPUTER TIPS

Disable showing last user on logon screen

 

 

 

When you boot up windows 2000 or XP, windows shows the information about the last user logon to that computer in the user name field. But you can disable to show the last user logon information, if you have little knowledge about editing windows registry.

Follow the given steps to change the owner name:

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

• Here locate the location to:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

• Here in right side panel, double click on dontdisplaylastusername and change its value data 1. But next time you can give its value 0 to display username again.

• Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

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