I have searched all over on how to have Win XP Pro to stop remembering the
last username to logon. I have found a few tips on how to prevent it on win
2000, but nothing on xp pro. I have disabled the Welcome screen and now I
just have the login box, but for security reasons I don't want windows to
remember who last logged on. I found this registry hack on another site but
it didn't work:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
Type: Reg_SZ
Value: 1

I also tried clearing the value for the keys:
AltDefaultUserName
DefaultUserName

I logged off and viola the last username was not display! But as soon as I
logged back into windows and went into the registry my user name was once
again set as the value for
AltDefaultUserName
DefaultUserName

So I am still searching for solution. Please help :-)

"MidnightTwink" wrote:

> I have searched all over on how to have Win XP Pro to stop remembering the
> last username to logon. I have found a few tips on how to prevent it on win
> 2000, but nothing on xp pro. I have disabled the Welcome screen and now I
> just have the login box, but for security reasons I don't want windows to
> remember who last logged on. I found this registry hack on another site but
> it didn't work:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
> Type: Reg_SZ
> Value: 1

In news:24E7172F-7441-4B32-BD95-B5726F868FFB@microsoft.com,
MidnightTwink <MidnightTwink@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> I have searched all over on how to have Win XP Pro to stop
> remembering the last username to logon. I have found a few tips on
> how to prevent it on win 2000, but nothing on xp pro. I have
> disabled the Welcome screen and now I just have the login box, but
> for security reasons I don't want windows to remember who last logged
> on. I found this registry hack on another site but it didn't work:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
> Type: Reg_SZ
> Value: 1

That's for NT.

In 2k/XP, you'd do this in the local computer policy....start, run,
gpedit.msc

Computer config\windows settings\security settings\local policies\security
options....

Find Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name, double-click on it
and enable it.