Hiding Usernames in the Logon Screen

Hi Friends, Today I am telling you about “Hiding Usernames in the Logon Screen”. When you start most Windows PCs, you end up at the logon screen so that you can

choose your username and log on by entering your password. In Windows 7, the logon

screen always displays icons for each user account, and each icon shows the name of the

account as shown below.

This may not seem all that important, but that logon screen is actually helping any

would-be cracker a great deal. Why? The nefarious nogoodnik now has an important

advantage because he knows the names of all your user accounts (or, in the case of XP

Pro, one of your accounts). Yes, the evildoer must still guess an account’s password, but

you can make things a heckuva lot harder by forcing the snoop to also guess a username

on your system. How do you do that? By tweaking Windows so that it doesn’t display

usernames in the logon screen. Sneaky!

Note:

These steps require the Local Security Policy snap-in, which is available only with

Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate, and XP

Professional.

You do that by following these steps:

 

1) Select Start, type secpol.msc into the Search box, and then press Enter. The Local

Security Policy snap-in appears.

 

2) Open the Local Policies and it will look like this

3) Now click on  'Local Polices' then click on 'Security Options' , then double click on 'Interactive Logon: Do Not Display Last User Name'

 4) A new Dialog will be open. Select 'Enable' radio button and click on OK.

 You are done and when you start your computer the logon screen will be look like this

 

Enjoy............

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