Windows 7 Login Screen Situation.
In an effort to slightly secure laptops deployed in the field, I set a registry setting to hide "Other User" from the Windows 7 Login Screen (to prevent guessing at Administrator quickly). However, I cannot remember what this registry setting was,
and because Other User is now disabled, I cannot login as Administrator either. I booted into Recovery with Regedit open, but I cannot recall the key.
My questions are potentially 2:
1) Does anyone know what key I set to hide other user, so I can re-enable it?
2) Is there a keystroke to show a classic login as a workaround to my situation? Or some way of logging into Administrator without needing "other user" present?
May 4th, 2012 11:24am
1. Start from the procedure that you have used to HIDE and try the reverse step. You can access the affected computer from another "healthy " computer by setting the name in regedit.
2. Most likely you have addred key to the following branch
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
in new key SpecialAccounts you have DWORD (32bit) value
UserList remove user name you want to reappeare on logon scree.
Regards
Milos
PS: There is an alternative that make use of one function from Windows 2003 Resource Kit
ntrights.exe -u <username> +r SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight
(find the reverse to hide in documentation)
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May 5th, 2012 9:46am
1. Start from the procedure that you have used to HIDE and try the reverse step. You can access the affected computer from another "healthy " computer by setting the name in regedit.
2. Most likely you have addred key to the following branch
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
in new key SpecialAccounts you have DWORD (32bit) value
UserList remove user name you want to reappeare on logon scree.
Regards
Milos
PS: There is an alternative that make use of one function from Windows 2003 Resource Kit
ntrights.exe -u <username> +r SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight
(find the reverse to hide in documentation)
May 5th, 2012 4:44pm