Enable CTRL+ALT+DEL at login

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Enable CTRL+ALT+DEL at login

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This option appears in WinXP Pro in the User Accounts control panel applet. In WinXP Home it does not. I know there is a way to enable it on home because after instaling PCAnywhere 10 it enables ctr+alt+del before users can enter their password.

Where is this setting hidden in XP Home, or is there a place in the registry to enable it?

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Post by JMEaT »

Never mind, I should have consulted Google first.

http://www.visualwin.com/Disable-C-A-D/

Left up for anyone else who might need this refference.
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Post by Krom »

Just for reference in XP it can also be done in Control Panel ---> User Accounts ---> Change the way users log on and off. Uncheck \"Use the Welcome screen\" to enable Control + Alt + Delete, check it to disable it. Disabling the welcome screen makes windows go back to the old windows NT style login screen.
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Try running \"control userpasswords2\" and then looking at the \"Advanced\" tab.
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TY JMeat, i was just getting ready to ask the same thing.
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Post by heftig »

BTW, this option doesn't even appear in the XP Pro User Accounts applet. The only ways to enable this feature are through the Win2000 User Accounts applet (control userpasswords2) and the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). At least the latter is not available in XP Home.
Krom wrote:Just for reference in XP it can also be done in Control Panel ---> User Accounts ---> Change the way users log on and off. Uncheck "Use the Welcome screen" to enable Control + Alt + Delete, check it to disable it. Disabling the welcome screen makes windows go back to the old windows NT style login screen.
This only activates the old Win2000 style logon, not necessarily the requirement to do Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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Also, for those of you that use autopatcher, its part of the registry tweaks listed on the bottom of the installer. (installs it directly into your control panel)
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It might be on my WinXP Pro machine at work because it is on a domain. Not sure though.
Krom wrote:Just for reference in XP it can also be done in Control Panel ---> User Accounts ---> Change the way users log on and off. Uncheck "Use the Welcome screen" to enable Control + Alt + Delete, check it to disable it. Disabling the welcome screen makes windows go back to the old windows NT style login screen.
Disabling the Welcome screen in XP just asks for user/pass on my machine, not the Control + Alt+ Delete to logon dialog. I never used the Welcome screen and perfered the Old Sk00l login.
heftig wrote:Try running "control userpasswords2" and then looking at the "Advanced" tab.
That command worked on my XP-Home machine. That dialog is the same one I see on my Pro machine at work when I click on User Accounts in the Control Panel. Thanks for the short-cut!
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THANK YOU!! I didn't think I could do this. ^_^
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Post by ccb056 »

Microsoft has a series of tools \"Powertoys\" I think their TweakUI also does this.
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Couldn't find such a setting in TweakUI.
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