Logon Information

Information

This will show you how to display the previous number of successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, with the date and time, display when logging on. You would then just click Ok to continue to logon and start Vista.

NOTE

This can be useful if you need to keep track of how many logon attempts where made to your system.

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NOTE

This method is only available for the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions. See Method Two below for the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.

1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for the UAC prompt.
4. In the left pane, click on Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and Windows Logon Options. (See screenshot below)
5. In the right pane, right click on Display information about previous logons during user logon and click Properties.



6. To Not Display Logon Information -

A) Dot Disabled or Not Configured and click OK. (See screenshot below step 7)
B) Go to step 8.

7. To Display Logon Information -

A) Dot Enabled and click OK.

8. Close the Local Group Policy Editor window.

NOTE

This method will work for all Vista versions.

Through a Download:

1. To Display Logon Information -

A) Click on the download button below to download the Logon Information.reg file.
B) Go to step 3.

2. To Not Display Logon Information -

A) Click on the download button below to download the Undo_Logon_Information.reg file.

3. Click on Save, and save the .reg file to the Desktop.
4. Right click the .reg (On Desktop) file and click Merge.
5. Click on the Run button for Security Warning pop-up.
6. Click on Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.
7. Logoff and logon or restart the computer to apply the changes.
8. When done, you can delete the .reg file (On Desktop).

The Manual Way:

1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below step 5)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

5. In the right pane, right click on a empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value.



6. Type DisplayLastLogonInfo and press Enter. (See screenshots below)
7. In the right pane, right click on DisplayLastLogonInfo and click Modify.




8. To Display Last Logon Information -

A) Type 1 and click OK. (See screenshot below step 9)
B) Go to step 10.

9. To Undo Logon Information -

A) Type 0 (number zero) and click OK.
NOTE: You can also right click on DisplayLastLogonInfo and click Delete. (See screenshot beloe step 7)

10. This is how the registry should now look. (See screenshot below)



11. Close regedit.
12. Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to apply the changes.