Win2K's Ctrl-Alt-Del Login

[senior guy]

I'm not on a network, so there's no security issue. It's a real nuisance to always have to do the Ctrl-Alt-Del thing to login to Win2K. Is there a (safe) hack?

 

[cirrus1]

Yes there is a way to get rid of it and it is not even a hack. Go into control panel - users and passwords - advanced tab - at the bottom you will see the "Secure boot setting" - untick it: Voila!

 

[IntelConvert]

Wow, I never knew that! 😀

 

[senior guy]

Thanks for the tip cirrus1, that will make my life a little easier!

 

[Blayze]

will this also work for Server/Advanced Server or is this for Professional only?

 

[kyoshozx]

Blayze, only works for professional. In Server, you need to edit the group policy for local machine and that'll do it for you.

 

[jyrixx]

i always thought it was ironic that you had to hit ctrl + alt + del to get into windows.. usually it's used to exit.. hehe.. 🙂

nonetheless thanks for the info!

 

[Blayze]

thanks

 

[ucdnam]

In case you don't want to login, you can turn that off to. I had that on for some time, but I've come to trust my roommates to not do anything stupid to my computer, so now I have that option off.

 

[snowdogg187]

Thanks a lot, I'll change this in my lab on friday.

 

[senior guy]

Glad to hear that others will also benefit from cirrus1's and ucdnam's tips. As I see it, Win2K's ctrl-alt-del login serves no purpose and is an annoyance for those of us individual Win2K users. Now, I think I'll start another thread to find out how to "streamline" Win2K for non-network use...😉