Change the user account shown at the Vista Welcome Screen

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Justin Brown - SYNACS - 25 Feb 2007 21:17 GMT

I've used the DefaultUserName string value in Windows XP to change the
logon experience, although granted this was a domain logon, without
the Welcome screen.

For anyone familiar with the guts of this process, is it possible for
an administrator to manipulate this on a Vista workstation?

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GBorn - 27 Feb 2007 21:45 GMT

> I've used the DefaultUserName string value in Windows XP to change the
> logon experience, although granted this was a domain logon, without
> the Welcome screen.
>
> For anyone familiar with the guts of this process, is it possible for
> an administrator to manipulate this on a Vista workstation?

AFAIK no. Vista didn't provide a way to bypass the Welcome screen and use
the W2K login dialog.

G. Born (Germany)

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