How to Remove Username From Login Prompt of Last Logged in User in Windows XP

This How-To helps you stop Microsoft Windows XP from displaying the username of the last person that logged on in the logon prompt.

This will help you increase security of your system as any would-be hackers will not have to guess the username and password. This is a must have if this is an office computer.

WARNING: You will have to edit the system registry and if you do not know what you are doing you could damage the system and cause you to have to do a system restore or complete reinstall of your operating system.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Click (Start) then click (Run). In the (Run) command box type {Regedit} and hit (Enter).

2. In the registry editor browse for "folder"/subkey
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

3. In the right panel of the registry editor right click and select (New - String Value) Enter the name (DontDisplayLastUserName) and enter the value of 1 to stop the last logged username from displaying on the login prompt.
   
   If the value is 0 the last logged on username will be displayed in the login prompt box.
   
   If the (DontDisplayLastUserName) String Value already exist then just double click on it and change the value.

[badtea]

on 12/6/2009 Thanks for the tip! I have been wanting to do this on my home PC for a while. Don't need as much security at home, but I'm a little bit of a security nut.

Rated 5* and recommend!