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Logon with Username and Password
How to Make Vista Require a Username and Password at Logon
Published by Brink
09-04-2007

How to Make Vista Require a Username and Password at Logon

INFO: This will change the logon procedure in Vista to require all users to type in their username and password instead of selecting their user icon and typing in just their password to logon their user account. This is like the old classic Windows logon screen.

NOTE: You must do this from within an Administrator account or provide the Administrator password when prompted by UAC.

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EXAMPLE: Username and Password Logon Screen
NOTE: For the username, you can type your Username, or to logon to a domain, type Domain Name (Computer Name)/Username instead. (EX: My Computer/Moderator) If you have no password, just leave it empty. You can press TAB or SHIFT+TAB to move between Username and Password if you entered something incorrectly.

Example.jpg


METHOD ONE:
Through a Download:
1. To Enable Username and Password Logon -
Enable_Username&Password_Logon.reg < Click To Download

2. To Restore the Default Logon
- Restore_Default_Logon.reg < Click To Download
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. When done, you can delete the .reg file (On Desktop).
NOTE: The next time you go to a logon screen, you will be required to enter your username and password to logon
to Vista in your user account.


METHOD TWO:
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)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
5. In the right pane, right click on dontdisplaylastusername and click Modify.

Reg.jpg

6. To Enable Username and Password Logon -Type 1 and click OK. (See screenshot below)

7. To Restore the Default Logon - Type 0 (number zero) and click OK.

Modify.jpg

8. Close regedit.
NOTE: The next time you go to a logon screen, you will be required to enter your username and password to logon to Vista for your user account.


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Re: Logon with Username and Password

i tried this and it errored out when i clicked okay. i did this from a user account that is not the admin. Any suggestions? i need this TO get Vista to prompt for the username so i can type in the correct username for the admin account.
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Re: Logon with Username and Password

Hi Mikhayah,

Yes, this is normal. You will need to do this tutorial in a Administrator account or provide the Administrator password when prompted by UAC.

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Man, that's really rough. It's hard to believe that MS never thought that someone might put in a wrong Username and need to type it in correct; as there is no way to type in a correct password for a wrong Username. That's really a HUGE flaw of Vista. People type things in wrong and need to be able to change it without reinstalling the entire OS.
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Re: Logon with Username and Password

LOL Mikhayah,

I thought you were talking about doing the tutorial. LOL

You can press Tab or Shift+Tab to go back to Username to re-enter it.

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Nah, the tutorial seems fine, but it's just not working in my case.

Also, i just tried tab and tab-shift and it just moved around to everything (as tab does), but didn't open a field for Username.
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Mikhayah,

Strange. After I entered a wrong username and password on purpose, I got the error like you. I clicked OK, then was able to press Tab to move back and forth between the Username and Password field.

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Crap. That stinks man. It's just not happening on my end.
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Re: Logon with Username and Password

Mikhayah,

I would just go back to the default of just typing in the password for the user account.

Is it not showing your Administrator account display picture asking for the password using the default logon?

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Yeah, it's super weird man... i type in the password and it says it's denied and that it is "either" a wrong password "or" a wrong username...

Well the thing is that under users, there is the ORIGINAL name and not the saved one, AND the password hint is the original password hint.

The image is the image that was used for the original username. Only the typed in name for the username is different... a name my wife was trying to change it to, but it said it didn't happen (and again, under users it is not listed). i just can't get it to prompt me for a different username.
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