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!!
Disabling Switch User
- 31 Mar 2008 #1
Aditya Krishnan GuestMy System SpecsDisabling Switch User
- 31 Mar 2008 #2
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My System SpecsRe: Disabling Switch User
Hi Aditya,
Originally Posted by Aditya Krishnan 
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
- 01 Apr 2008 #3
Donald McDaniel GuestMy System SpecsRe: Disabling Switch User
"Aditya Krishnan" <AdityaKrishnan@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:ED977D31-F664-4918-9971-30D18E76BE70@xxxxxx
> 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
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- 02 Apr 2008 #4
Aditya Krishnan GuestMy System SpecsRe: 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.
- 02 Apr 2008 #5
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Join Date : Apr 2007 Texas, USA Posts : 30,591 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, Windows 8 Enterprise Local Time: 09:48 PM
My System SpecsRe: Disabling Switch User
Your welcome Aditya. Thank you for the feedback. Originally Posted by Aditya Krishnan
Shawn
Disabling Switch User
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