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03-31-2008
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| | Disabling Switch User Whenever I lock my system (Win + L) I want it to be inaccessible to anybody but me. This used to work in XP, but not in Vista. How can I disable the Switch User function in Vista Home Basic? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!! |
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03-31-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Disabling Switch User  Quote: Originally Posted by Aditya Krishnan  Whenever I lock my system (Win + L) I want it to be inaccessible to anybody but me. This used to work in XP, but not in Vista. How can I disable the Switch User function in Vista Home Basic? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!! The easiest method would be to password protect your user account. This way no one can logon to your user account without the password from the Lock or Switch User screen. This will show you how to create a password for your user account if needed. User Account - Create Password If you still would like to disable "Switch User", then Method Two in this tutorial will show you how. You have the option of doing it on all or selected user accounts. Fast User Switching Shawn |
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04-01-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Switch User "Aditya Krishnan" <AdityaKrishnan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ED977D31-F664-4918-9971-30D18E76BE70@xxxxxx Quote: > Whenever I lock my system (Win + L) I want it to be inaccessible to > anybody > but me. This used to work in XP, but not in Vista. How can I disable > the > Switch User function in Vista Home Basic? Any help will be much > appreciated. > Thanks!! Check this out: http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html Since you won't have access to the Group Policy Editor in Vista Home (only Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Vista have the Group Policy Editor), you will have to use the Registry Editor (second method given on the page). This will make Fast User Switching unavailable from the Desktop or the Start menu, but sadly, this hack will NOT work for the Welcome Screen: It is not possible to do this for the Welcome Screen. User Switching will still be available on the My advice? Don't allow anyone other than yourself to have a User Account on your machine. This should stop it completely, since a User Account cannot be created from the Welcome Screen. It is simply not possible to login without an account. -- Donald L McDaniel Please respond to the correct message. ============================== |
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04-02-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Switch User okay.. thanks.. I wanted to disable it for the welcome screen specifically. I have to have multiple accounts as my sister uses this system too, but when I'm using it I'd like to stop her from logging on if I step out for a minute or so. Thanks for your time. |
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04-02-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Disabling Switch User Quote: Originally Posted by Aditya Krishnan okay.. thanks.. I wanted to disable it for the welcome screen specifically. I have to have multiple accounts as my sister uses this system too, but when I'm using it I'd like to stop her from logging on if I step out for a minute or so. Thanks for your time. Shawn |
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