Showing posts with label login. Show all posts
Showing posts with label login. Show all posts
Monday, July 24, 2017
Disable and Turn Off Windows XP Login Screen and Show Traditional NT Log On to Windows Box
Disable and Turn Off Windows XP Login Screen and Show Traditional NT Log On to Windows Box
When Windows XP boots up in multiple users system, by default on startup, Windows XP will display a graphical logon screen with user icons and user names. In this �Welcome Screen�, user can click on his or her username or icon, type in the password (if assigned) and then log on to Windows XP desktop. Some XP may find theWelcome Screen is a beautiful user interface and convenient feature to quickly log in to WindowsXP without tying additional long user name.
However, at times, Windows XP users may need to use the more traditional and standard �Log on To Windows� dialog box inherited from WindowsNT login screen that allows users to key in user name and password. For example, when want to log on to hidden user account such as Administrator account.
However, at times, Windows XP users may need to use the more traditional and standard �Log on To Windows� dialog box inherited from WindowsNT login screen that allows users to key in user name and password. For example, when want to log on to hidden user account such as Administrator account.
To immediately access and open Log On to Windows traditional and standard login dialog box while on XP Welcome Screen, user can press Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence twice (same with key sequence for reboot or secure login in NT based Windows). After pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del keys simultaneously twice, Welcome Screen will be changed to logon dialog box with user name and password fields.
To permanently switch to �Log On to Windows� NT styled logon dialog box so that users log on to the computer without using the Welcome screen, instead of using the graphical Welcome login screen, follow these steps:
- Log on to Windows XP as Administrator or user with administrative privileges.
- Open User Accounts in Control Panel by clicking Start, click Control Panel, and then click User Accounts.
- Click Change the way users log on or off.
4. Clear the Use the Welcome screen check box.
1. Click Apply Options button.
Note that by turning off and disabing Welcome screen, Fast User Switching feature is no longer available. To revert and switch back to use Welcome screen in XP, simply tick again the �Use the Welcome Screen� check box so that it is checked.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Disable Enable Passwordless Login all Ubuntus
Disable Enable Passwordless Login all Ubuntus
Aside from the common, and way less detrimental, option to auto-login to your desktop, you may easily be tempted to think that logging in without password query is a good idea - well, it is not, as you may have learned already. It's only useful under very narrow, unusual conditions, otherwise it will either not let you change the desktop session option anymore, or lock you out of your desktop completely. This is how to re-enable the password query on login, or if all conditions are actually met, how to disable it.
For the above-mentioned reasons, passwordless login is not enabled by default. But you may have either chosen that on installation, or enabled it afterwards, the latter either via GUI, if an option is available there, or via command line. Eventually, you may find yourself unable to disable it again, either because there is no option available in the GUI, or because you cannot log in to your desktop anymore in the first place. So, to disable the passwordless login from the command line, either in a Terminal or at the CLI/tty, just run this command:
sudo gpasswd -d <USERNAME> nopasswdlogin
Notes: Technically, that removes the concerning user from the group "nopasswdlogin". Replace <USERNAME> with the respective actual username, obviously.
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