Prevent XP from displaying the last user logged on

Contributed by shamanstears August 25, 2006  
Tagged: Windows networking

This tech-recipe describes how to edit the registry to prevent XP from displaying the last user who was logged on.

1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).

2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system registry subkey.

3. Double click the “dontdisplaylastusername” value (or create the DWORD type value if it doesn’t exist).

4. Set the value to 1 to enable the feature or 0 to disable it.

5. Click OK and close the registry editor