Hide Previous Logon Username

If you work in a security-minded environment, you may want to disable the default setting in NT 4.0 that displays the name of the last person who logged onto the system. It's often far too easy to guess a user's password from his or her username or from the logon environment.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the Registry Editor (Regedt32).
2. Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
3. Navigate to the subkey \Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
4. Go to Edit | New | String Value.
5. Enter DontDisplayLastUserName for the string's name.
6. Double-click the new string to edit the value.
7. Change the value to 1, and click OK.
8. Exit the Registry Editor.

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